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The effect of non-cariogenic sweeteners on the prevention of dental caries: a review of the evidenceC Hayes
Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
J Dent Educ 65:1106-9. 2001..The highest caries reductions were observed in subjects using xylitol. These findings suggest that the replacement of sucrose with sorbitol and xylitol may significantly decrease the incidence of dental caries...
Evidence based dentistry: design architectureCatherine Hayes
Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Dent Clin North Am 46:51-9. 2002..Thus, it is important to evaluate research studies critically in light of this discussion and not simply to summarize the findings. Finally, conclusions about causality can only be made on the body of evidence, not on any single study...
Folic acid-containing supplement consumption during pregnancy and risk for oral clefts: a meta-analysisRachel L Badovinac
Department of Developmental Biology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 79:8-15. 2007..We undertook this meta-analysis to test the hypothesis that nonsyndromic oral cleft birth prevalences are different for those whose mothers took folic acid-containing supplements and for those whose mothers did not...
Caries prevalence, oral health behavior, and attitudes in children residing in radiation-contaminated and -noncontaminated towns in UkraineKarina Spivak
Harvard School of Dental Medicine, 7 Yarmouth Place, Apt 2, Boston, MA 02116, USA
Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 32:1-9. 2004..Several studies investigating the oral health status of children living in Ukraine after the Chernobyl catastrophe revealed an increase of caries in children residing in radionucleotide-contaminated areas...
Severe odontogenic infections, part 2: prospective outcomes studyThomas R Flynn
Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Oral Maxillofac Surg 64:1104-13. 2006..The purpose of this study was to identify significant predictors of 4 outcomes in patients with severe odontogenic infections: abscess formation, penicillin therapeutic failure (PTF), length of hospital stay (LOS), and need for reoperation...
Effectiveness of dentist-prescribed, home-applied tooth whitening. A meta analysisR Niederman
Office of Evidence Based Dentistry, Harvard School of Dental Medicine and Forsyth Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Contemp Dent Pract 1:20-36. 2000..Common clinical experience suggests that tooth whitening agents are 100% effective. This study uses meta-analysis of data from published randomized controlled clinical trials to determine the efficacy of tooth whitening agents...
The effects of active infant orthopedics on occlusal relationships in unilateral complete cleft lip and palateKathleen T Chan
Department of Growth and Development, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
Cleft Palate Craniofac J 40:511-7. 2003....
Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase polymorphisms and the risk of gestational hypertensionSonia Hernandez-Diaz
Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Epidemiology 16:628-34. 2005..It is also unknown whether the fetal genotype is relevant, or whether folic acid supplementation modifies this association...
Pediatric clinicians can help reduce rates of early childhood caries: effects of a practice based interventionNancy R Kressin
Northeast Center for Research to Evaluate and Eliminate Dental Disparities, Boston, MA, USA
Med Care 47:1121-8. 2009..Early childhood caries (ECC) is a serious and preventable disease which pediatric clinicians can help address by counseling to reduce risk...
Vasoactive exposures, vascular events, and hemifacial microsomiaMartha M Werler
Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 70:389-95. 2004..We collected data in a case-control study to identify whether vasoactive exposures or vascular events during early pregnancy affect the risk of HFM...
Glycemic control of type 2 diabetes and severe periodontal disease in the US adult populationCarlene Tsai
Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
Community Dent Oral Epidemiol 30:182-92. 2002..56; 95% CI: 0.90, 2.68). CONCLUSION: These results provide population-based evidence to support an association between poorly controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus and severe periodontitis...
Pediatric oral health-related quality of life improvement after treatment of early childhood caries: a prospective multisite studyD T Cunnion
Department of General Dentistry, Henry M Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
J Dent Child (Chic) 77:4-11. 2010....
Low maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy and oral clefts in offspring: the Slone Birth Defects StudyKatie A Meyer
Department of Applied Medical Sciences, School of Applied Science, Engineering, and Technology, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, USA
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 67:509-14. 2003..These findings did not change when we considered possible modifying effects of vitamin supplement use. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings do not support an association between oral clefts and a low level of alcohol consumption...
Oral health disparities in children of immigrants: dental caries experience at enrollment and during follow-up in the New England Children's Amalgam TrialNancy Nairi Maserejian
New England Research Institutes, 9 Galen Street, Watertown, MA 02472, USA
J Public Health Dent 68:14-21. 2008..We compared the children of immigrants to the children of US-born caregivers in their caries experience at enrollment and their new caries increments during the 5-year New England Children's Amalgam Trial (NECAT)...
Rural and urban disparities in caries prevalence in children with unmet dental needs: the New England Children's Amalgam TrialNancy Nairi Maserejian
New England Research Institutes, 9 Galen Street, Watertown, MA 02472, USA
J Public Health Dent 68:7-13. 2008..To compare the prevalence of caries between rural and urban children with unmet dental health needs who participated in the New England Children's Amalgam Trial...
