Hygiene
Barbara Smith, Linda Field in Nursing Care, 2019
Oral hygiene is the practice to keep mouths clean and free from disease by regularly brushing teeth and gums and checking around the mouth and between the teeth, this needs to be done regularly, the teeth and gums need to be cleaned at least, twice daily (NHS Choices, 2018). It is important that patients are assisted to meet their oral hygiene needs. A variety of grips for toothbrushes and sculptured handled toothbrushes are available from specialist equipment shops and large pharmacies to help people with restricted hand movement, for example due to arthritis. Exhibit 4.2 offers some tips on maintaining a healthy mouth (Department of Health, 2017). Good oral health is about not having pain or disease, it is about having the ability to eat, drink and communicate properly. Poor oral health can lead to dehydration and malnutrition which will delay recovery and can lead to extended hospital stays. Good oral health is important so that the person’s dignity can be maintained (Doshi, 2016).
Community-Based Methods for Preventing Dental Caries and Periodontal Disease
Lars Granath, William D. McHugh in Systematized Prevention of Oral Disease: Theory and Practice, 2019
Improvements in general levels of oral hygiene over time are difficult to document, but many authorities believe that such improvements are occurring in economically developed countries.20 If so, this progress may be partly a result of traditional dental health education over the years, but it could also be just as much a reflection of increasing consciousness of general health and personal grooming. To illustrate, sales of toothbrushes, toothpaste, and dental floss have grown steadily in the U.S. in recent years, but so have sales of shampoo, soap, deodorants, colognes, and recreational clothes and equipment. For whatever reason, improvements in oral hygiene are encouraging and should lead to long-term improvement in oral health status.20 The more this trend is seen, however, the less likely are public campaigns to improve oral hygiene because there is less room for improvement. Motivated persons are already practicing high levels of oral hygiene, nonmotivated persons are unlikely to be changed by the broad, general nature of public campaigns. Dental health education needs to be personalized in educated societies and public campaigns are hard to personalize.
Employing staff
Mervyn J. Bright, Sau-Kee Li in Making Sense of Dental Practice Finance, 2017
There is a growing tendency for routine dental hygiene and education to be entrusted to a hygienist. The work will either be carried out on the dentist’s own FHSA number or on a fee-paying basis by the patient. The hygienist is usually paid: On a sessional basis, irrespective of the number of patients treated.At an hourly rate, also irrespective of the number of treatments.On a percentage basis of the fees earned.On a per capita basis.
Profile of the oral microbiota from preconception to the third trimester of pregnancy and its association with oral hygiene practices
Published in Journal of Oral Microbiology, 2022
Xuena La, Hong Jiang, An Chen, Huajun Zheng, Liandi Shen, Weiyi Chen, Fengyun Yang, Lifeng Zhang, Xushan Cai, Hongfang Mao, Lu Cheng
In addition to the physiological changes caused by the hormone surge from preconception to pregnancy, oral hygiene, as an extrinsic host factor, can exert important roles in maintaining oral microbiota stability [17]. Poor oral hygiene is supposed to increase the risk of a drift in the oral ecology towards a state of disease [11]. Oral hygiene practices, such as regular daily brushing to mechanically removing dental plaque are important for maintaining a healthy oral ecology [18]. As a modifiable behavioral factor, oral hygiene practices could be improved via health education and promotion, and thus has the potential to further improve systemic health. However, by now, limited research has been conducted to investigate the impact of oral hygiene practices on the oral microbiota. Therefore, we developed an observational study based on a preconception cohort to understand 1) the characteristics of the oral microbiota among women during preconception and pregnancy; 2) the associations between oral hygiene practices and the oral microbiota.
Implementation of oral hygiene practices in nursing homes – the view of supervisor nurses
Published in Acta Odontologica Scandinavica, 2022
Hannaleena Jämsä, Marja-Liisa Laitala, Hannu Vähänikkilä, Anna-Maija Syrjälä
Of Oral hygiene practices, the implementation of denture hygiene was well organised. Our results are parallel with a previous study where 73% of the nurses thought that dentures should be cleaned at least once a day [24]. Almost all supervisor nurses claimed that removable dentures are cleaned on daily basis. This may raise a question of too positive answers and/or thoroughness of the cleaning of the removable dentures as it has been previously reported high prevalence of denture stomatitis in long term hospitalised older people in Finland [28]. In Finland, a remarkable proportion of the old people have removable dentures, and good denture hygiene improves their oral health-related quality of life and prevents candida stomatitis. Denture hygiene is also important for systemic health because respiratory pathogens may colonise denture plaque and lead to pneumonia [29]. Thus, supervisor nurses should encourage nurses to continue to clean the dentures, preferably twice a day, and in addition, to rinse the dentures after meals.
Assessment of oral health knowledge and challenges in oral hygiene practices among homeless adults in Jalan Chow Kit, Kuala Lumpur
Published in Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness, 2022
Nor Haliza Mat-Baharin, Nor Azura Ahmad-Tarmidzi, Erma Fazira Muhammad, Nurul Najwa Md-Yusuf
On oral health practices, most participants in this study reported that they maintain good oral hygiene practice as 81.2% of them brush their teeth twice or more in a day. This finding is almost similar to a study done in Canada by Figueiredo et al. (2013), which has reported that 78% of the homeless participants claimed to practice daily tooth brushing. However, this finding contradicts the results of other studies, which have reported that half of the participants fail to brush their teeth regularly (Caton et al., 2016; Hill & Remington, 2011). More than half (62.3%) of the participants in the present study have obtained their toothbrush for free, which is most likely from the dental community service held monthly at the Jalan Chow Kit area. However, minority (11.6%) of the participants share their toothbrush. This result suggests that the participants are willing to perform their daily oral hygiene care, but their living conditions have forced some of them to share their toothbrush. Additionally, the participants are familiar with the community service conducted by Dentistry for The Needy (DFTN), which gives consultation on tooth brushing and oral hygiene care and supplies oral hygiene aids, including toothbrushes and toothpastes.
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