Int Dent J
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To describe the process and outputs of an international collaborative oral health promotion project to develop a national infection control policy and training programme for oral health care workers in the low income country of Nepal between April, 2003 and May, 2004. ⋯ The results of the project to develop a national infection control policy and training programme for oral health care workers in dental clinics, dental education institutions and the Nepal Primary Health Care System, required the collaboration of policy makers, health professionals, health managers, oral health care providers and educators from the government sector, private sector, Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) and International Non-Government Organisations (INGOs).
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To elicit the perception of pain in patients undergoing dental extraction under local anaesthesia and also to identify factors that might contribute to this experience despite the administration of local anaesthesia. ⋯ These results suggest that the status of the attending surgeon may affect the level of anxiety in patients undergoing tooth extractions prior to surgery. While patient's occupational group and duration of surgery could contribute to patient's intraoperative pain perception despite the administration of local anaesthesia.
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Pain in the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) and the surrounding region constitutes a symptom of TMJ disorders. Various dental causes usually stimulate the trigeminal nerve, developing facial pain which triggers trigeminal neuralgia. However, trigeminal neuralgia may also arise from irritation of the endocranial root of the nerve, due to occult damage which has not yet manifested other symptoms, for example a meningioma. ⋯ The case of a 47-year-old woman is presented who complained of symptoms of a painful TMJ disorder. She was initially treated with the appropriate dental procedures and, upon continuation of the pain, was examined with CT scanning, which proved to be negative despite the existence of a cerebral lesion. Further investigation with MRI, however, revealed a meningioma of 5 mm size, in the region of the cerebellopontine angle.
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Biography Historical Article
How the Middle West was won: women enter dentistry.
At the beginning of the 19th century, the settlement of the Middle West of the United States was taking place and soon thereafter dental schools were being founded. With the establishment of dental schools, dentistry slowly evolved from a craft transmitted by a preceptor to a profession taught within established schools. Starting with Lucy Beaman Hobbs Taylor, a number of women from the Middle West entered dental schools when they were opened to them. Many active women of the Middle West became dentists and provided impetus for the profession as well as founding of the American Association of Women Dentists.