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S Gelbier

Publications and source records attributed to S Gelbier.

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PubMed1989

Communication with deaf people in the surgery setting.

The terms impairment, disability and handicap are defined, and related to hearing, and current available statistics on the number of people with hearing impairments in the United Kingdom are considered. The problems of treating people with hearing difficulties are discussed and practical solutions suggested, so that these people need not be handicapped with regard to dental care.

Communication↗
PubMed1989

Dentists and ethnic minority communities.

It is estimated that 4.5% of the UK population originates from the New Commonwealth and Pakistan (NCWP). However, the distribution is not equal. For instance, two-thirds of all young children in the inner wards of Birmingham, and one-third of those in inner London, have parents who were born in the NCWP. Uptake of dental services is reported to be low in some inner city areas. There, as elsewhere, dental care needs to be accessible, acceptable and appropriate. But how are these objectives best achieved?

Adult↗
PubMed1989

Possible foetotoxic effects of mercury vapour: a case report.

A thirty-year-old dental surgeon who worked until the 35th week of pregnancy in a surgery in which mercury vapour concentrations in excess of the threshold limit value (TLV) had been detected, gave birth at 42 weeks to a small-for-dates baby with severe brain damage. The possibility that this baby's development might have been harmed by mercury is discussed and the literature relevant to teratogenicity of mercury reviewed. Attention is drawn to the need for further research into the effects on health and pregnancy outcome of mercury vapour in dental surgeries.

Adult↗
PubMed1989

Oral health screening of elderly people attending a community care centre.

A socio-dental survey was carried out to determine the level of dental disease and treatment requirement among elderly people attending a Community Care Centre. A screening programme involving 293 elderly people demonstrated a normative need of 82% and a felt need of 53%. Seventy-six per cent would have benefited from dental care. Many individuals who both needed and wanted dental care were not receiving it because they were discouraged from doing so predominantly because of poor mobility. It is recommended, therefore, that dentists be included in multi-disciplinary teams caring for elderly people so that they can be screened and given the opportunity to obtain dental care.

Aged↗
PubMed1989

A comparison between the findings of a routine school dental inspection and epidemiological data from the same five year old children.

This study examines the need for standardised examiners to collect data on 5-year-old children. Data collected at routine school inspections by non-standardised dental officers are compared with data collected by a standardised epidemiologist using the criteria recommended by the British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry. Both sets of data were gathered from one sample of 638 children. Comparisons between results are made for the total sample, for the three health districts concerned and at individual school level. For the total sample there was a mean difference of 0.05 dmft between the dental officers' data and the epidemiologist's data but in one district identical results were achieved. Comparisons between districts showed that both data sets identified the same statistically significant differences; for example, both showed one district to have significantly higher levels of caries than the other two. At individual school level regression analysis gave a very high level of agreement (r = +0.94) between the two data sets. If mean values of dmft continue to be reported as indicators of child dental health, data collected at routine dental inspections on large samples may be adequate for this age group.

Child, Preschool↗