<p>Plak dapat menjadi penyebab kerusakan terhadap struktur gigi maupun jaringan pendukungnya, sehingga perlu dilakukan tindakan kontrol plak. Kontrol plak secara kimiawi dapat dilakukan dengan penggunaan obat kumur seperti <em>povidone iodine </em>dan klorheksidin yang merupakan antiseptik yang efektif dalam menurunkan pembentukan plak. Keduanya terbukti memiliki daya antibakteri terhadap <em>Streptococcus mutans</em> yang merupakan salah satu bakteri penyebab plak. Mengetahui perbedaan efektivitas dari obat kumur <em>povidone iodine </em>dengan klorheksidin terhadap indeks plak. Metode penelitian ini adalah <em>pre-post test control group design</em> dengan memeriksa indeks plak sebelum dan sesudah berkumur. Subjek dalam penelitian ini terdiri dari 32 orang siswa/i SMPN 2 Cimahi yang berusia 13 ̶ 15 tahun yang terbagi menjadi dua kelompok. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan memeriksa indeks plak sebelum dan sesudah berkumur dengan pemeriksaan indeks plak <em>Silness and Loe</em>. Data diuji normalitasnya menggunakan <em>Chi-square </em>dan dianalisis dengan T-test. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan terdapat perbedaan rerata indeks plak sebelum dan setelah berkumur dengan <em>povidone iodine </em>sebesar 0,68 dan klorheksidin sebesar 0,51 dengan <em>p-value</em> 0,11. Obat kumur <em>povidone iodine </em>dan klorheksidin memiliki efektivitas yang sama terhadap indeks plak.</p>
Blind people have limitations in receiving dental and oral health information. It can facilitate the occurrence of caries. Blind people have limitations in performing various activities that require vision assistance, such as maintaining oral and dental hygiene when brushing their teeth, so blind people often experience multiple problems with their teeth, one of which is caries. This study aimed to determine the caries index in blind children in SLBN A Cimahi City and SLBN A Bandung City. The study used a cross-sectional design and consecutive sampling. The number of samples was 21 blind children. The study's results on blind children aged 6-12 showed a very low to moderate caries index. The def-t index in children with low vision blindness has moderate criteria; in children with total blind blindness, it has low standards. Children with low vision and total blind have the same DMF-T index, which is low. The def-t index in SLBN A Citeureup Cimahi City has low criteria, while SLBN A Padjadjaran Bandung City has a def-t index with moderate standards. SLBN A Citeureup Cimahi City and SLBN, A Padjadjaran Bandung City, have the same DMF-T index, which is low. Parents, teachers, caregivers, and health workers need to pay more attention to the dental and oral health of blind children.
Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMD) could be caused by forward head posture. Articular sound/TMJ clicking is the most often sign and symptom for TMD that could happen in human being. The presence of TMD such as TMJ clicking would cause an imbalance masticatory system. The purpose of this research was to investigate TMJ clicking effects to masticatory performance. This research was cross-sectional study with epidemiology survey. Subject were children aged 12-15 years old DeuteroMalay sub-races live in Bandung and was taken using multi-stage random sampling technique. Subject; consisted of 24 children as control group and 28 children as TMJ clicking group. Both group were then checked for masticatory performance using multiple sieve method and 20x chewing of artificial test food. Mastication performance value represented by median particle size (MPS) particle distribution (b) for each group. MPS from TMJ clicking group showed higher value than control group. Statistic analysis with t-test showed that there's a significant result in both of group (p value =0,0024, α = 0,05). Conclussion, temporomandibular joint clicking subject has lower masticatory performance. Keywords 159Effects of temporomandible joint disorder with clicking symptom towards mastication performance. (Henri Hartman et al.)
All ages, especially children, favor cariogenic foods. Cariogenic foods are foods that contain fermented carbohydrates, mainly sucrose. Microorganisms are attached to the tooth surface can ferment various types of carbohydrates, becoming acidic and causing a decrease in salivary pH until it reaches a critical point in salivary pH followed by dental caries in the future. Saliva is one of the factors that cause dental caries. This study aimed to determine the effect of cariogenic food intake on changes in children's pH salivary. This research was conducted with a literature study as a reference and analyzed the findings obtained. The sample used was nine pieces of literature consisting of 19 cariogenic foods. This study showed a statistically significant result (p<0.05) in a change of salivary pH value before cariogenic food and after cariogenic food intake. Around 42.53% of children experienced a decrease in salivary pH more significant than the average after cariogenic foods intake, and 57.47% of children experienced a reduction in pH salivary. There are 49.74% of children have pH salivary lower than its average value, which could be lead to demineralization of enamel.
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