Dietary Strategies to Optimize Wound Healing after Periodontal and Dental Implant Surgery: An Evidence-Based Review

Methods to optimize healing through dietary strategies present an attractive option for patients, such that healing from delicate oral surgeries occurs as optimally as possible with minimal patient-meditated complications through improper food choices. This review discusses findings from studies that have investigated the role of diet, either whole foods or individual dietary components, on periodontal health and their potential role in wound healing after periodontal surgery. To date, research in this area has largely focused on foods or individual dietary components that may attenuate inflammation or oxidant stress, or foster de novo bone formation. These studies suggest that a wide variety of dietary components, including macronutrients and micronutrients, are integral for optimal periodontal health and have the potential to accelerate oral wound healing after periodontal procedures. Moreover, this review provides guidance regarding dietary considerations that may help a patient achieve the best possible outcome after a periodontal procedure.

Exploring Capacity Building of Ontario Dental Hygiene Educators During National Curriculum Reform

In times of educational change, educators are given the task of implementing new initiatives that meet the needs of a changing environment; yet, they are often dismissed from developmental phases of the reform. This top-down structure deters educators’ personal capacity building as their knowledge, values, assumptions, and beliefs are not acknowledged or explicitly developed as part of the initiative. This study explored Ontario dental hygiene educators’ perspectives of how they may build personal capacity during an externally mandated national curriculum reform, the Entry-to-Practice Competencies and Standards for Canadian Dental Hygienists (National Competencies). Narratives were collected from 5 dental hygiene educators of diverse educational training and teaching organizations. Three themes emerged that included perceptions of structural influence, perceptions of learning access, and perceptions of identity. Each theme was linked to tasks that were required to build personal capacity for sustainable school change. The theoretical framework and the required tasks demonstrated the interconnectedness between educators, leaders, and the organization for building educators’ personal capacity.

Contenido de fluoruros en el agua de consumo y sus efectos en el tejido dental : San Luis Potosí, México, 1988

Tesis (Maestría en Salud Pública con Especialidad en Odontología Social) UANL

Diseño de un monitoreo de la dispersión de rayos X en radiografía dental

Tesis (Maestro en Ciencias con especialidad en Metrología de la Radiación) U.A.N.L.

Análisis de la dispersión de rayos-X en el aire en radiografía dental [por] Guillermo Escobedo Valle

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias con Especialidad en Metrología de la Radiación) U.A.N.L.

Medición de la longitud de arco dental y su relación con el género y edad en niños de 3 a 6 años que acuden al Posgrado de Odontopediatría de la UANL.

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias Odontológicas con Especialidad en Odontopediatría) UANL, 2010.

Separación padre-hijo : elección de los padres durante la atención dental en la Clínica de Posgrado de Odontopediatría de la UANL.

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias Odontológicas con Especialidad en Odontopediatría) UANL, 2011.

Conocimiento de los padres de niños preescolares acerca de la primera visita dental de sus hijos.

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias Odontológicas con Orientación en Odontopediatría) UANL, 2012.

Presencia de helicobacter pylori en placa dental de la población infantil que acude al posgrado de Odontopediatría de la Facultad de Odontología de la U.A.N.L.

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias Odontológicas con Especialidad en Odontopediatría) UANL, 2012.

Evaluación del arrestamiento de caries utilizando la técnica de restauración a traumática en incisivos y caninos deciduos superiores en dos tipos de ionomero de vidrio. Estudio clínico.

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias Odontológicas con Especialidad en Odontopediatría) UANL, 2012.

Comparación de 3 sistemas de pulido en una resina de nanorelleno y su relación con la superficie del esmalte dental.

Tesis (Maestría en Odontología Avanzada) UANL, 2013.

Presencia de hábitos orales deformantes de la oclusión y maloclusión dental en una población escolar de 3°, 4° y 5° año de primaria en el área metropolitana de Monterrey.

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias en Salud Pública) UANL, 2013.

Citotoxicidad del aloe vera y el formocresol en células mesenquimales de pulpa dental.

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias Odontológicas en el área de Odontopediatría) UANL, 2014.

Relación entre edad cronológica con los estadíos de maduración dental de Nolla.

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias Odontológicas con especialidad en Ortodoncia) UANL, 2014.

Using Google Analytics to evaluate an email information literacy program for medical and dental students

Objectives: An email information literacy program has been effective for over a decade at Université de Montréal’s Health Library. Students periodically receive messages highlighting the content of guides on the library’s website. We wish to evaluate, using Google Analytics, the effects of the program on specific webpage statistics. Using the data collected, we may pinpoint popular guides as well as others that need improvement. Methods: In the program, first and second-year medical (MD) or dental (DMD) students receive eight bi-monthly email messages. The DMD mailing list also includes graduate students and professors. Enrollment to the program is optional for MDs, but mandatory for DMDs. Google Analytics (GA) profiles have been configured for the libraries websites to collect visitor statistics since June 2009. The GA Links Builder was used to design unique links specifically associated with the originating emails. This approach allowed us to gather information on guide usage, such as the visitor’s program of study, duration of page viewing, number of pages viewed per visit, as well as browsing data. We also followed the evolution of clicks on GA unique links over time, as we believed that users may keep the library's emails and refer to them to access specific information. Results: The proportion of students who actually clicked the email links was, on average, less than 5%. MD and DMD students behaved differently regarding guide views, number of pages visited and length of time on the site. The CINAHL guide was the most visited for DMD students whereas MD students consulted the Pharmaceutical information guide most often. We noted that some students visited referred guides several weeks after receiving messages, thus keeping them for future reference; browsing to additional pages on the library website was also frequent. Conclusion: The mitigated success of the program prompted us to directly survey students on the format, frequency and usefulness of messages. The information gathered from GA links as well as from the survey will allow us to redesign our web content and modify our email information literacy program so that messages are more attractive, timely and useful for students.