Disease relevance of Dental Offices

• The dental office team must accept the charge of educating all patients concerning the devastating role of tobacco and ethanol in promoting oral cancer, as well as malignancies at other sites [1].
• This study analyzed a total of 47 water samples from dental lines in private dental offices and university and hospital dental clinics for Legionella using the polymerase chain reaction, direct fluorescent antibody staining and culture techniques [2].

Psychiatry related information on Dental Offices

• The nicotine transdermal patch: use in the dental office tobacco cessation program [3].

High impact information on Dental Offices

• Ethylene oxide is a gas used in some dental offices to sterilize equipment [4].
• The LQ Test also was administered to a group of individual patients who were seen in a dental office [5].
• In the dental field, this could be the case with the odorant eugenol, responsible for the typical clinging odor impregnating the dental office [6].
• Implications: Pediatric sedation in the dental office often consists of nitrous oxide (N2O) after chloral hydrate premedication [7].
• There is little information on the consequences of stopping fluoridation in a community with comprehensive dental care for all children and adolescents, who are frequently exposed to different fluoride measures both at home and in the dental office [8].

Biological context of Dental Offices

• Waste management in the dental office is not a limited issue involving only dentists from the Region of Hamilton-Wentworth [9].
• Results showed that dentists tended to have a positive attitude about performing cholesterol screening, nutrition counseling, and blood pressure screening in the dental office [10].
• These measures involve public health benefits of water fluoridation, professional fluoride treatments in the dental office, and the home use of effective fluoridated dentifrices, with the use of fluoride rinses and gels as adjuncts when needed [11].

Associations of Dental Offices with chemical compounds

• Mercury vapor in amalgam waste discharged from dental office vacuum units [12].
• Airborne mercury from dental offices was selectively trapped by silber gauze elements in borosilicate glass obsorbers, followed by heat-desorption and spectrophotometric measurement at 2537A [13].
• Managing latex allergies in the dental office [14].
• This technique allows for the rapid and effective fabrication of an occlusal splint in the dental office [15].
• Survey of mercury vapour in dental offices in Atlantic Canada [16].

Gene context of Dental Offices

• CONCLUSIONS: Light polymerization units in private dental offices displayed a wide range in light intensity, and many had below-recommended levels [17].
• Pain and dental implantology: sensory quantification and affective aspects. Part I: At the private dental office [18].
• This could never happen to me! White-collar crime in the dental office [19].
• The California Dental Association has been inundated with inquiries on what dental offices should be doing with regard to Prop [20].
• METHODOLOGY: Fourteen dental offices in West Palm Beach, Florida participated in the study during April/May 2004 [21].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Dental Offices

• Nitrous oxide and oxygen is widely used for conscious sedation in dental offices [22].
• The procedures considered to be standard and acceptable by practitioners are bleaching teeth outside the dental office; bonding; intracoronal direct resin restorations; tooth-colored inlays and onlays; porcelain veneers; all-ceramic crowns; and PFM crowns [23].

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