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How Often Do You Think About Oral Health as an Essential Part of Wellness and a Healthy Lifestyle?
Published in Gia Merlo, Kathy Berra, Lifestyle Nursing, 2023
Judith Haber, Erin Hartnett, Jessamin Cipollina
Although many oral health complications are treatable and curable, there are many oral problems that can continue to impact patients’ dentition if proper oral care is not provided. Complying with thorough oral hygiene practices and dental check-ups can greatly reduce the incidence of oral complications and can minimize the severity of such oral issues as mucositis and xerostomia. Nurses, nurse practitioners, and the entire health care team must emphasize the importance of maintaining the oral care before, during, and after cancer therapy to prevent long-term oral health problems and improve patients’ overall well-being and quality of life.
Treatment – Chronic Illness-Related Malnutrition
Published in Jennifer Doley, Mary J. Marian, Adult Malnutrition, 2023
Jennifer Doley, Michelle Bratton
Issues with the mouth and teeth, including poor dentition, mouth sores or pain, xerostomia, and taste changes, can directly contribute to inadequate intake. Poor dentition, such as tooth loss, tooth pain or poorly fitting dentures, can result in difficulty chewing. This limits the types of foods an individual is able to consume, such as some raw fruits and vegetables, meats, and nuts, many of which are high in energy, protein, and phytonutrients. Mouth sores or pain are most commonly associated with cancer treatments such as chemotherapeutic agents and radiation to the head or neck; however, they are also side effects of some micronutrient deficiencies and infectious agents such as herpes simplex and candida.
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Published in Henry J. Woodford, Essential Geriatrics, 2022
Food and drink should be offered at times when the person is most alert and in an upright position. People should be sitting out of bed for meals whenever possible. Larger meals might be substituted for smaller amounts of foods with higher nutritional value. Firm, fibrous foods (e.g. meat or bread) that require a lot of chewing pose an increased risk of choking and should be avoided. Oral health, dentition and dentures should be checked. Review medications with an aim to stop or reduce sedating and anticholinergic agents. Cognitive decline can lead to lack of judgement about when food has been chewed enough to be swallowed safely, over-filling the mouth and eating too fast. Meal-time supervision may be required. See page 128 for additional advice on supporting people with dementia.
Exopolysaccharides metabolism and cariogenesis of Streptococcus mutans biofilm regulated by antisense vicK RNA
Published in Journal of Oral Microbiology, 2023
Yuting Sun, Hong Chen, Mengmeng Xu, Liwen He, Hongchen Mao, Shiyao Yang, Xin Qiao, Deqin Yang
We verified a 1.76-fold increase in the expression of ASvicK in clinical strains screened from dental plaque of CF children and a 0.49-fold decrease of that in SECC children compared with the standard strain UA159 (Figure 5a). Next, we validated the effect of cariogenic pathogenicity of ASvicK in SD rats model. Rat molars of the lower dentition were observed under a stereomicroscope to determine the cariogenic severity according to Keyes Scores. We confirmed that the ASvicK group, similar with the blank control group, generated a lower cariogenic incidence in smooth and sulcal caries compared with the UA159 group (Figure 5b, c). The biofilms on the surface of molars were observed by SEM and CLSM (Figure 5d, E). We discovered the reduction of biofilms and EPS in the ASvicK group compared with the UA159 group. Besides, there was no significant difference in caries score or formation of biofilms and EPS between the SmuvicK+ group and the UA159 group.
Morphological variations and prevalence of aberrant traits of primary molars
Published in Annals of Human Biology, 2021
P. Sujitha, R. Bhavyaa, M. S Muthu, M. Kirthiga
The parastyle is a paramolar cusp of Bolk that occurs on the mesiobuccal surface of upper molars (Turner et al. 1991). Although the literature pertaining to this trait is negligible, it is said to be predominant in deciduous molars (Kustaloglu 1962). In the present study, the results yielded a prevalence rate of 0.51% in primary maxillary second molars and 3.48% in primary maxillary first molars. Studies conducted among southwestern and northwestern Indians (Kustaloglu 1962) gave a prevalence of 5.2% and 4.7%, respectively, in primary maxillary second molars. The prevalence found in the present study was comparatively less in primary maxillary second molars. However, the prevalence of the parastyle was higher in primary maxillary first molars. The literature suggests primary maxillary first molars to be the “premolar section” of the primary dentition and to resemble certain features of premolars (Nelson and Ash 2012). The literature also suggests that this trait occurs more in premolars (Kustaloglu 1962), which can be the reason for its higher prevalence in primary maxillary first molars.
Influences of behaviour and attitude on education related inequality in tooth loss: findings from Norway and Sweden over 5 years of follow- up
Published in Acta Odontologica Scandinavica, 2021
Anne Nordrehaug Åstrøm, Stein Atle Lie, Ferda Özkaya
Dentition status in terms of partial and complete tooth loss is a reliable marker of population oral health [1]. A significant reduction in the global burden of severe tooth loss occurred between 1990 and 2010, whereby the global age standardised prevalence of edentate people declined from 4.4% to 2.4% [1]. Accordingly, epidemiological figures from Sweden have shown that the prevalence of complete tooth loss among 40–70 yr olds decreased from 16% in 1973 to 0.3% in 2013 [2]. In Norway, Ekornrud et al. [3] and Holst and Skau [4] reported a prevalence of complete tooth loss of respectively, 3 and 7% among 60–74-year-olds in 2008. In spite of these declining trends, it is evident that the mean number of lost teeth increases with increasing age and that a substantial proportion of older people experience tooth loss [5–8].