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J Jenny

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PubMed1989

Utility of the dental aesthetic index in industrialized and developing countries.

To be truly useful, an index must be applicable universally without modification. The data presented in this article support the use of the standard DAI without modification to assess need for orthodontic treatment in both developing and industrialized countries. When students from Thailand, Australia, the German Democratic Republic, and Native Americans residing on Indian reservations rated the same 25 occlusal stimuli (photographs of dental configurations) for dental aesthetics, their ratings of these stimuli when arranged in rank order were highly correlated with those of US students. These 25 occlusal stimuli were a subset of the original 200 occlusal stimuli used in deriving the standard DAI regression equation. This article presents data indicating that when a Native American DAI was derived based on Native American ratings of the same 200 occlusal stimuli used in deriving the standard DAI, the Native American DAI and the standard DAI had the same ten components (orthodontic measurements) and strikingly similar regression coefficients (weights). Further analysis indicated that the two equations were sufficiently similar to justify using the standard DAI to obtain DAI scores on Native Americans and to estimate the relative social acceptability of their dental aesthetics. If ratings for dental aesthetics for the full set of 200 stimuli were available for each of the countries where only 25 were rated, we expect that, as in the case of Native Americans, a country-specific DAI, if computed, would be sufficiently similar to the standard DAI that no modification would be needed to allow use of the standard DAI in that country.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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PubMed1983

Comparison of SASOC, a measure of dental aesthetics, with three orthodontic indices and orthodontist judgment.

Scores for three malocclusion indices (HLD, TPI and OI) and Orthodontist Judgment (OJ) were available for the 100 orthodontic study models utilized in the development of SASOC, the Social Acceptability Scale of Occlusal Conditions. The ability of SASOC to predict need for treatment using OJ as a standard was compared to the ability of HLD, TPI and OI to predict OJ's decisions. In addition, determinations of need for treatment of each of the 100 models using HLD, OI and OJ were compared to SASOC's rankings for the public's perceptions of aesthetic acceptability. Finally, the agreement of HLD, OI and OJ with each other in assessing need for treatment was compared. Results indicated: 1) that SASOC's, HLD's, TPI's and OI's "hit rate" in predicting OJ ranged between 73% and 81%; 2) HLD's, OI's and OJ's assessment of malocclusion paralleled lay perceptions of aesthetic acceptability (SASOC), and 3) there were differences of agreement among HLD, OI and OJ as to which cases had a definite need for treatment. There was more agreement on cases which did not have a definite need for treatment than on those which did. A tool which assesses only the aesthetic component of occlusal configurations was judged to be more suitable in the study of the social and psychological impact of malocclusion than indices and orthodontist judgment which include professional criteria as well as aesthetics in their assessments of malocclusion.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1983

Health educational aspects of preventive dental programs for school-age children in 34 countries--final results of an FDI international survey.

The survey was conducted as part of a project of the Working Group on Oral Health Promotion of CORE, in order to provide a basis for the FDI to plan ways to assist its member associations in developing successful preventive dental programs for school-age children. Mail questionnaires were distributed through national dental associations and completed by dental program directors. A total of 119 responses from 34 countries has been analysed. The programs reported tended to be young, supported by public funds, carried out in schools and part of ongoing agency or organizational programs. Instructional activities were the most frequently mentioned service provided routinely for all children, followed by early detection and treatment services. Primary preventive services appeared to be provided least frequently. About 60 per cent of programs served children drinking water from central sources, but only 16 per cent of programs served children drinking optimally fluoridated water. Water fluoridation was the most frequently mentioned procedure that respondents would have liked to see added or extended if additional resources were to be made available. Program organization was the most frequently mentioned reason for program success. The five most frequently mentioned barriers were insufficient financial resources (most often cited), manpower limitations, low public acceptance, non-supportive attitudes among policy makers and inadequate facilities. As a result of the survey three major needs were identified: (1) the need for more efficient application of known effective primary protective methods, especially against dental caries; (2) the need to improve the correspondence between program objectives, the types of services provided and the evaluation methods used to assess and evaluate program achievements; and (3) the need for greater understanding of the scope of community health educational aspects of oral health, prevention and dental treatment. Specification of these and similar problems should lead the FDI working group to recommend priorities on the type of assistance to provide to member nations and the manner of its provision, perhaps in concert with the World Health Organization and the International Association for Dental Research.

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PubMed1983

Perceptions of occlusal conditions in Australia, the German Democratic Republic and the United States of America.

An instrument developed by Jenny et al. (1980) for rating the public's perceptions of the social acceptability of a wide variety of occlusal configurations was administered to children and adults in Australia, the German Democratic Republic and the United States of America and also to US orthodontists. Mean scores for the 7 groups of subjects from the 3 countries were arranged in rank order from the least socially acceptable to the most socially acceptable and compared. The results indicate that use of the social acceptability scale of occlusal conditions (SASOC) is a highly reliable method for scoring and rank-ordering the aesthetic acceptability of occlusal morphologies. Spearman rank-order correlation coefficients between the ranking of SASOC stimuli by all 7 groups of subjects from the 3 countries ranged from 0.85 to 0.97. The probability of such correlations occurring by chance is less than 1 in 10000 (P less than 0.0001). SASOC proved capable of rank-ordering a wide range of occlusal morphologies for aesthetics with excellent consistency along the entire spectrum from the least acceptable to the most socially acceptable in all 3 countries. The data indicate that norms for socially acceptable dental appearance are essentially the same in Australia, the German Democratic Republic and the United States of America.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1982

Preventive dental programs for school-age children in 8 countries: pilot survey, 1979.

This paper reports the results of a pilot project, sponsored by the FDI Working Group on Oral Health Promotion, which was designed to describe preventive dental programs for school-age children in 10 countries. A mail questionnaire was developed to obtain information about program philosophy, target population, preventive program components, promotion and educational methods, barriers to program development, program priorities and evaluation methods. In this pilot phase, a total of 27 questionnaires were returned from 8 countries (Argentina, Federal Republic of Germany, France, Japan, Singapore, Sweden, Thailand, United Kingdom). Respondents generally recognized the need to include three major program elements in order to build comprehensive programs, primary preventive measures, early detection and treatment services, and instructional activities for children and adults. Financial problems were cited most frequently as barriers to program development, followed by manpower, public acceptance, policy decisions, policy-maker attitudes, legal constraints and transportation. The domain of educational problems associated with initiating and maintaining children's preventive dental programs is broad and diverse. Educational problems, roles and methods seemed to be pervasive, cutting across all program components. Although the greatest educational emphasis appeared to be on oral hygiene, the need was also recognized to include educational components for each dental program element or service, such as fluoride rinsing. Educational needs related not only to children, but to policy-makers, dental and other health professionals and program and school personnel. The FDI Working Group has expanded the survey and collected data from a much larger number of countries during 1979-1981. Results of the larger survey will be presented at the Annual World Dental Congress of the FDI in Vienna, 1982.

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PubMed1980

Test of a method to determine socially acceptable occlusal conditions.

A method for determining the social acceptability for dental appearance across the full range of occlusal conditions found in a natural population was developed and tested. The strategy used in developing the Social Acceptability Scale of Occlusal Conditions (SASOC) was to present photographs of 100 dental study models to a large sample of high school students (n = 880) and their parents (n = 403) whose responses were measured by a semantic differential instrument. After refinement of the semantic differential instrument scale scores were derived for each study model by computing the mean individual scores. Ranks were assigned to the mean scores. The Pearsonian correlation obtained between parent and student subsamples was 0.95. The reliability and validity of SASOC were assessed. COCSTOC measures of specific occlusal traits for these 100 study models are available. The future task involves the development of a highly reliable regression equation for predicting social acceptability scores from a small number of objective physical measurements.

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