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.
Epidemiology of Head and Neck Carcinoma
John C Watkinson, Raymond W Clarke, Terry M Jones, Vinidh Paleri, Nicholas White, Tim Woolford in Head & Neck Surgery Plastic Surgery, 2018
Other risk factors may play a role in oral cavity SCC: multiple studies have examined the role of marijuana as a risk factor; however, no conclusive evidence has been found implicating marijuana use as a cause of UADT SCC at any subsite.22 These studies may suffer from recall bias, subsite misclassification, confounding due to concurrent tobacco use, and low incidence of heavy marijuana use, and further investigation is needed.23 Poor oral hygiene has also been identified as a potential risk factor but may be a sign of disease rather than a cause. Defective DNA repair pathways may also play a role in the development of SCC.24 While HPV plays a strong role in the etiology of OPSCC, there is no evidence that HPV contributes to any great degree to oral cavity SCC.
Factors influencing the provision of oral hygiene care following stroke: an application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour
Published in Disability and Rehabilitation, 2018
Normaliza Ab Malik, Saari Mohamad Yatim, Otto L.T. Lam, Lijian Jin, Colman McGrath
Other attributes were also significantly associated with the behavior of providing oral hygiene care. Knowledge scores and training were significantly associated with the behavior of providing oral hygiene care (an increase in likelihood of ∼28% for every increase in knowledge score and an increase in likelihood of ∼83% for those who had received oral care training) supporting the value of health education to increase the practice of providing oral hygiene care [8]. Access to guidelines on oral care was significantly associated with reported practice of providing oral health care (an increase in likelihood of ∼89% where access to guidelines existed), suggesting the value of guidelines to promote and translate evidence into practice as has been advocated by others [22]. Availability of oral hygiene care kits was significantly associated with the practice of oral hygiene care (an increase in likelihood of ∼64% where access to oral health kits existed), highlighting the potential that available resources can have to promote the practice. Having available oral hygiene aids has been shown to increase oral hygiene practices as in the case of dental flossing [23]. Working at a rehabilitation ward was associated with an increased likelihood of performing oral hygiene care (∼twice the likelihood compared to those working on medical wards), this highlights the potential importance of environment and when caring for similar types of patients that routine for oral hygiene care is likely to be developed.
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
The main theme, “Client’s daily practices” comprised basic daily factors affecting oral health among clients. Our results showed that according to Oral hygiene practice the daily cleaning of the client’s own teeth is insufficient. Our results are in line with previous results where residents’ own teeth were brushed for too short a time [10]. Furthermore, in our study, Favourable diet for oral health was not attained, as sugary snacks were given in 80% of care units. Impaired oral hygiene resulting in the accumulation of dental plaque, sugary snacks, and hyposalivation increase the risk for dental caries among older people [19,20]. Dental plaque is also a risk factor for periodontal disease, which has been shown to relate to many systemic inflammatories or infectious conditions, such as cardiovascular diseases and diabetes [21]. Improving oral hygiene and diet would improve both dental health and general health among clients.
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