Community dentistry and oral epidemiology
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Community Dent Oral Epidemiol · Oct 2009
Development and evaluation of an oral health literacy instrument for adults.
To develop and validate an instrument to measure the functional oral health literacy of adults. ⋯ Initial testing of OHLI suggested that it is a valid and reliable instrument to evaluate oral health literacy among adults, although additional work is needed to investigate the instrument's predictive validity and sensitivity to change using oral health outcomes with population groups known to be at high risk of low functional oral health literacy.
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Community Dent Oral Epidemiol · Oct 2009
Orofacial pain in young adults and associated childhood and adulthood factors: results of the population study, Wales, United Kingdom.
The aim of the study was to investigate the prevalence of orofacial pain (OFP) among young adults (30-31 years old) and to determine the effect of childhood and adulthood risk factors on the occurrence of OFP. ⋯ This study shows that OFP is frequently reported by young adults aged 30-31 and supports a multifactorial etiology with factors from many domains, including local mechanical factors, psychological and co-morbidities. However, none of the childhood factors considered in this study were associated with OFP in adulthood.