This report consolidates previous recommendations and adds new ones for infection control
in dental settings. Recommendations are provided regarding 1) educating and protecting …

Unlabelled Image Background Little is known about the use of dental services during
pregnancy. Yet research suggests that a pregnant woman's oral health and her pregnancy …

Background The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, is the lead federal
agency for disease prevention in the United States. It has been 10 years since CDC infection …

In 1941, Klein and Palmer published a landmark study that ranked the relative susceptibility
to dental caries of various morphological tooth types. Specifically, Klein and Palmer used a …

Background The authors examined the risk of caries development in teeth with partially or
fully lost sealant (formerly sealed [FS] teeth) relative to the risk in teeth that never have …

Widespread use of fluoride has been a major factor in the decline in the prevalence and
severity of dental caries (ie, tooth decay) in the United States and other economically developed …

Unlabelled Image Background To date, no trials have been published that examine whether
four-handed delivery of dental sealants increases their retention and effectiveness. In the …

To estimate the prevalences of tooth retention and total tooth loss in 2002 among adults
aged greater than or equal to 65 years, CDC analyzed data from the Bahavioral Risk Factor …

… Suggested citation for this article: Timothé P, Eke PI, Presson SM, Malvitz DM. Dental care
use among pregnant women in the United States reported in 1999 and 2002. Prev Chronic …

Objective: This investigation assessed two methods for estimating epidemiologic indicators
of oral health status among children: (1) a visual‐only screening, performed independently …