Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess dental hygienists' interests, current
involvement, formal education, views, comfort levels, and intentions for involvement with …

Purpose: Dental hygienists can fill critical roles during mass fatality incidents in the area of
disaster victim identification, providing much needed support to forensic odontologists. The …

Background Members of the established public health systems and medical community must
understand that, in medical surge events, members of the dental profession and other non …

Background Ongoing vigilance by governments, public health agencies and health care
professionals monitoring potential epidemic and pandemic outbreaks, terrorist threats and …

ObjectiveTo obtain insights into disaster management among dental graduates in a dental
institute in India. MethodsA total of 103 of 104 house surgeons in Shri Dharmasthala …

Taking a leadership role, the Illinois Department of Public Health's Division of Oral Health
has helped to successfully integrate oral health professionals into the emergency medical …

Background Terrorist activities now can be added to the list of possible man-made and
nature-induced health and safety disasters that can affect a community. There are two basic …

No one can deny that these are extraordinary times in world affairs. This is true not because
there is turmoil in the world, which tends to be the norm, but because the problems in the …

The purpose of this project was to define education and training requirements for hospital‐
based dentists to efficiently and meaningfully participate in a hospital disaster response …

Natural disasters may strike quickly and without warning and cause long-term health
consequences beyond the immediate loss of lives and property. Dental professionals have a …