Obstructive sleep apnea: diagnosis, medical management and dental implications

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Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) can pose a very serious health hazard. OSA is regarded as a disruption in normal sleep practices combined with daytime symptoms. The symptoms, treatment, medical management, OSA's relation with dental treatments and how the dentists should face such problems are presented.

Care and treatment, Sleep apnea syndromes, Sleep apnea

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The impact of a brief tobacco-use cessation intervention in public health dental clinics

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A tobacco-use cessation program delivered via public health dental practitioners to public health dental patients is evaluated. The viability and effectiveness of delivering a tobacco intervention to low-income smokers via public dental practitioners is suggested.

Health Care and Social Assistance, Public affairs, HEALTH SERVICES, Public Health Care, Specialty outpatient clinics, not elsewhere classified, Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers, Administration of Public Health Programs, Health Programs-Total Govt, Administration of Human Resource Programs, Antismoking Programs, Health Programs, Social aspects, Public health, Smoking cessation programs, Smoking cessation

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The integration of clinical research into dental therapeutics

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A study examining the informed therapeutic decisions made by dentists, by assimilation of evidence is presented. This assimilation requires, knowledge of the quality of the evidence and its translation into clinical practice.

Decision-making, Decision making, Analysis, Medicine, Medical practice

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