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Rustvold, Susan Romano – ProQuest LLC, 2012
A self-perpetuating cycle of poor health literacy and poor oral health knowledge and behavior affects approximately 90 million people in the United States, most especially those from low-income groups and other at-risk populations such as those with addiction. Poor oral health can result from lack of access to regular preventive dental…
Descriptors: Dental Health, Health Behavior, At Risk Persons, Anxiety
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Chambers, David W. – Journal of the American Dental Association, 1977
A professor in the Division of Learning Resources, School of Dentistry, University of the Pacific, San Francisco, discusses the importance of dentists' considering individual patient characteristics and of individualizing their instruction of patients in preventive therapy. (MF)
Descriptors: Dental Health, Dentists, Habit Formation, Health Education
LUPTON, DANIEL E. – 1967
RESEARCH (1) ANALYZED SPECIFIC OUTCOMES OF COUNSELING, INSTRUCTION, AND DENTAL THERAPY, AND (2) DETERMINED THE RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF PATIENT EDUCATION FOR RELIEF OF TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT (TMJ) DYSFUNCTION. SIXTY ADULT PATIENTS ATTENDING THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS TMJ RESEARCH CENTER WERE RANDOMLY ASSIGNED TO ONE OF THREE PROGRAMS--DENTISTRY,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Dental Health, Emotional Problems