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Dental hygiene is defined as the science and practice of the recognition, treatment and prevention of oral diseases. The history of dental hygiene research is considered in the context of the development of the discipline and an emerging infrastructure. Research-related events supporting the growth and maturation of the profession are considered from the early years to the most recent. The benefits of preventive oral health services provided by dental hygienists have been supported by research, and the practice of dental hygiene has expanded as a result of research findings since its inception 100 years ago. Dental hygienists' engagement in research, however, did not begin until the 1960s as research associates or administrators, primarily with dental researchers as primary investigators. The Journal of Dental Hygiene (JDH) has provided information for dental hygiene practice since 1927, and has been the primary venue for dissemination of dental hygiene research since 1945. Graduate education in dental hygiene at the master's degree level and the work of early dental hygiene researchers led to the first conference on dental hygiene research in 1982. Over 30 years later, dental hygiene has established a meta-paradigm and defined conceptual models, built an initial infrastructure to support research endeavors and contributed much to the development of dental hygiene as a unique discipline. A doctoral degree in the discipline, continued theory-based research, initiatives to foster collaborations between dental hygiene and other researchers and enhanced capabilities to attract funding to support large scale studies are goals that must be attained through the efforts of future researchers to address the needs for additional development in the discipline of dental hygiene. Dental hygiene research supports the growing discipline and its value to society.
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Dental Hygienists/history , Research/history , Dental Prophylaxis/history , History, 20th Century , History, 21st Century , Humans , Research Support as Topic/history , United StatesABSTRACT
Lorenz Heister (1683-1758) was the major academic surgeon of the eighteenth century. He served as an army surgeon in a number of campaigns and eventually became the professor of anatomy and surgery at Altdorf University. In 1739, he published a comprehensive book on surgery that became the standard text on the subject. It was widely reprinted and translated into many languages. The English version was the first systematic treatise on surgery to appear in that language. The book has many chapters devoted to diseases of the mouth and their treatment.
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General Surgery/history , Mouth Diseases/history , Reference Books, Medical , Dental Prophylaxis/history , History, 17th Century , History, 18th Century , Mouth Neoplasms/history , Mouth Neoplasms/surgery , Tooth Extraction/historyABSTRACT
De la comparación de los cuadros anteriores podemos deducir lo siguiente: se coincide en el criterio de que el método de Starker's es bueno, por lo tanto recomendable para pacientes niños comprendidos entre las edades de los 3 a los 4 años de edad, época en que el niño tiene la dentadura comp´leta temporaria y no tiene gingivitis asociada al cambio dentario. se coincide con el criterio pediátrico de que para pacientes niños comprendidos a partir de los 5 años, se debe enseñar a usar el cepillo dental para el aseo bucal doméstico mediante el método de CHARTER'S. De igual manera este método se debe usar en paciemntes adultos, para prevenir inicios o complicaciones patólogicas gingivales o mucosas y realizar una buena limpieza dentaria
