...ABSTRACT The purpose of this action research study was to determine if using a disclosing solution and a camera would increase patient compliance and improve oral hygiene habits. I intended to show patients how to discover the location of biofilm (plaque) on their teeth and gingival tissues with the help of visual aids. This would promote a more dynamic home care regimen resulting in lower Plaque and Bleeding Index scores between dental visits. I believe that if patients can see the areas where biofilm is located, it would be easier for them to use the toothbrush and floss more effectively. Keeping Plaque Index scores low will help prevent dental decay, gum disease and maintain the integrity of any existing restorations. In addition, increased patient compliance will result in overall better home care to encourage less inflammation and bleeding to minimize future problems. Patients will be able to recognize the biofilm and...
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...contributing factors to occur. In order to understand the caries process fully we will discuss all of the factors involved. Such factors include: the agent (acidogenic bacteria), the host (the tooth, quality and quantity of saliva, and immune responses) and the environment (the patient’s diet, amount/frequency and kind of food or drink consumed and the intake of fermentable carbohydrates). We will then discuss demineralization and remineralization (the body’s natural repairing of the tooth) and their roles in the caries process. We will also take a look at how caries are diagnosed and detected, what a caries risk assessment is, its factors and how it can be utilized on individual patients for caries prevention. Finally, we will discuss how dental caries is treated at all levels of the caries process. Caries, also known as tooth decay or cavities, is a bacterial infection transmitted primarily through saliva, leading to the destruction of enamel, cementum and dentin. Although caries is an infectious disease of the teeth, it is more accurate to say caries is caused by a shift in oral micro-flora to caries-causing types in response to acidity resulting from metabolism of sugars. (Higham, 2010) Three major factors contribute to the caries process: food or beverages that are consumed (sugary in content), the bacteria in plaque, and your teeth. The simplest way to think of it is that each time you eat there is an acid attack on your teeth. That’s because plaque, a sticky film of...
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...University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce and the Thai Chamber of Commerce Volume 4 Issue 3 JUNE - AUGUST 2012 ISSN: 1906-8646 Arbitration in Thailand Sorawit Limparangsri Thailand’s Brand Image Brand Studies and Research Center, University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce Doing Business in Creative Economy with the Growing Impact of AEC: ASEAN Economic Community Waralak V. Siricharoen, Nattanun Siricharoen Organizational Preparation for the Asean Economic Community Associate Professor Thongtippha Viriyapan THAI SKILLED LABOR AND THE AEC An Analysis of “Competitive Potential of Skilled Labor in the Service Sector Free Opening under the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC)” Contents June-August 2012 3 4 9 16 Editor's Memo Arbitration in Thailand 04 14 Thailand’s Brand Image 16 Doing Business in Creative Economy with the Growing Impact of AEC: ASEAN Economic Community 21 Organizational Preparation for the Asean Economic Community 2 www.facebook.com/ThailandEcoReview Thai Skilled Labor And the AEC An Analysis of “Competitive Potential of Skilled Labor in the Service Sector Free Opening under the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC)” 09 21 Editor's Memo “Seven Thai Professionals … How They Will Compete When We Enter the AEC?” In a relatively short time, Thailand will have a free flow labor with the other ASEAN member countries. The ten nations of ASEAN have prepared the Mutual Recognition...
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...The Elucidation of Fluoridation Fluoride. What is it? A nutrient? A medication? A pollutant? Water fluoridation has been a popular matter that has been going on for years. Many cities have been implementing fluoride in public water systems and many have not. The reason behind water fluoridation is that can help tooth decay. But fluoride’s adverse effects prevent some cities from imposing this practice. Water fluoridation should not be implemented within public water systems due to its effects on health, its environmental impact, and it being an unethical health intervention. Fluoride has gained its popularity in attempts to prevent tooth decay and dental caries, otherwise known as cavities. It has been incorporated into oral health products,...
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...S DR. NICHOLAS BURNS, DDS w 907D07 Eleni Mitsis prepared this case under the supervision of Professor John Haywood-Farmer solely to provide material for class discussion. The authors do not intend to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a managerial situation. The authors might have disguised certain names and other identifying information to protect confidentiality. Ivey Management Services prohibits any form of reproduction, storage or transmittal of this material without its written permission. Reproduction of this material is not covered under authorization by any reproduction rights organization. To order copies or request permission to reproduce materials, contact Ivey Publishing, Ivey Management Services, c/o Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 3K7; phone (519) 661-3208; fax (519) 661-3882; e-mail cases@ivey.uwo.ca. Copyright © 2007, Ivey Management Services Version: (A) 2007-03-12 One Friday afternoon in September 2005, Dr. Nicholas Burns, a sole practitioner dentist from Busby, Ontario, was driving home from a continuing education course on gum disease. At the course, he had overheard two dentists discussing Waterlase®, the new dental laser that allowed dentists to perform dental treatments without anaesthesia. One of the two was purchasing this technology. Burns had seen an increasing number of journal articles about the laser in recent years. Although he had wondered whether he...
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...with hunger. How did their journeys relate to my aspiring career in dentistry? I recalled shadowing Dr. Starns & Wood who volunteered tirelessly on Tuesday nights, spreading their impact on Charlottesville beyond private practice. Considering social entrepreneurship and dentistry, I defined impact as transforming as many lives possible across multiple...
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... Social care tasks are focusing on support of inhabitants of local communities in case of poverty and are to prevent exclusion. Social care includes activities such as analyses of the local environment, the economical status of community members and making decisions on financing or co-financing of help measures requested by individuals. The social care budget is also playing a role in financing health services for the unemployed (from the central budget) and the homeless/uninsured (from the local community budget). From the central social care budget money flows to the National Health Fund (NFZ), which is the central insurance institution in Poland, and is further disseminated among the 16 regions of Poland in which branches of NFZ are located. From the local community budget, moneys are paid directly to selected health care units. Due to the yet unfinished implementation of family medicine, primary health care in Poland consists of two dimensions or care models: the old Semashko model with its group out-patient units and the family medicine model. Nowadays both dimensions have equal representation in the health care system: First, part of primary health care – the remaining Semashko model – is organized based on out-patient units. Traditionally, these units consisted of different parts: general-internal medicine; pediatrics; surgery; OBGYN; district nursing care and in many cases dental care. Care in each of these parts was provided by specialists of each particular medical...
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...………………………………………………………………………………4 3.2 How HR contributes to organisational effectiveness ……………………………………………………4 3.3 HR’s roles and functions in management structures ……………………………………………………5 3.4 HR’s contribution to business ethics and accountability ………………………………………………5 LO4: How organizational and HR strategies and practices are shaped and developed 4.1 The role of HR in strategy formulation and implementation ………………………………………..6 4.2 Techniques and tools used to analyse organisational and business environment …………7 4.3 Vertical and horizontal integration ………………………………………………………………………………7 LO5: How to identify and respond to short term changes in the business data for planning purposes 5.1 HR’s role in business planning ……………………………………………………………………………………8 5.2 Environmental planning and the sources of business data for planning purposes ………8 5.3 Evaluate how agreed strategies, policies and plans are put into action within organisations … Bibliography …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………9 Appendix …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….10 SWOT ANALYSIS …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..11 PESTLE ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….12 3.1 Southern Dental operates in a global business environment, HR as a strategic part of the business is equally affected by both external and internal forces. These forces will shape the business strategy and all the strategies of all other aligned functions of the Company. The shape of the HR Agenda will be influenced...
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...Smoking and diabetes are absolute risk factors for periodontal disease. The majority of gum diseases can be calmly prevented by daily thorough plaque removal. However, irregularities about the teeth such as overhanging edges on fillings, poorly contoured fillings, and some types of partial denture designs accomplish tooth cleaning difficult and encourage the accumulation of plaque. For the majority of the population, however, periodontal health can be finer maintained by proper oral hygiene practices as well as avoidance of behavioral and environmental risk factors. Because periodontal disease is affiliated to an added susceptibility to systemic disease (e.g., cardiovascular disease, infective endocarditis, bacterial pneumonia, low birth weight, diabetes), it is important not alone for oral health but as well for general health to control periodontal...
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...bleaching is a popular dental procedure used to whiten teeth. The first clinical study of nightguard vital tooth bleaching using a carbamide peroxide product was published in 1989.1 Carbamide peroxide is the most commonly used active ingredient in home bleaching systems. It breaks down into hydrogen peroxide and urea in aqueous solution. Although concentrations of 10% carbamide peroxide (equivalent to approximately 3% hydrogen peroxide) are most commonly used, bleaching systems containing up to 22% carbamide peroxide are available for home use. The safety of home bleaching has been questioned. This article looks at the minor or transient adverse effects of home bleaching on oral tissues as well as the potential major long-term or systemic risks of the technique on dental and soft tissues. Minor or Transient Effects Tooth Sensitivity Previously, the most common method for vital tooth bleaching used liquid hydrogen peroxide in combination with heat. This method invariably caused tooth sensitivity both during and after the procedure. Thirty-five per cent hydrogen peroxide preparations with or without the additional use of heat caused histological pulpal changes.2-4 However, the treated pulps generally showed a reversal of these changes and repair within 60 to 92 days. Hydrogen peroxide by itself has been shown to inhibit pulpal enzyme activity and may penetrate into the pulp in very minute concentrations.4-6 Recent clinical studies of carbamide and hydrogen...
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...scheduled over the weekend, as well as during the week. Employees were required to work from one to three Sundays per month, depending on rotation. When the new schedule was announced, Mr. Tibbet resigned his position in the production group. He has filed a claim of constructive discharge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) which alleges that Zippeedoo Toy Company required practices which conflicted with his religious beliefs, forcing him to leave the company. Constructive discharge is an illegal and discriminatory practice that forces an employee to resign employment due to intolerable working conditions. In order to meet the criteria of a constructive discharge, Mr. Tibbet must prove that his resignation occurred a) due to conditions that any reasonable person would have found unbearable, and b) that the Zippeedoo Toy Company was aware that the schedule change would have a serious impact on Mr. Tibbet, but did nothing to remedy the situation (Zilmer v. Carnation Company, 1989), thus forcing his resignation. B. Title VII Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects employees from discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or...
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...Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act 1 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 Other short title(s) Long title Kassebaum-Kennedy Act, Kennedy-Kassebaum Act An Act To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve portability and continuity of health insurance coverage in the group and individual markets, to combat waste, fraud, and abuse in health insurance and health care delivery, to promote the use of medical savings accounts, to improve access to long-term care services and coverage, to simplify the administration of health insurance, and for other purposes. HIPAA Colloquial acronym(s) Enacted by the 104th United States Congress Citations Public Law Stat. Pub.L. 104–191 110 Stat. 1936 [1] [2] Legislative history [3] • • • • • • • • • Introduced in the House as H.R. 3103 [4] by Bill Archer (D-TX) on March 18, 1996 [5] Committee consideration by: House Ways and Means Passed the House on March 28, 1996 (267–151 Passed the Senate on April 23, 1996 (100-0 [6] ) [7] ) [8] ) and by the Senate on , in lieu of S. 1028 Reported by the joint conference committee on July 31, 1996; agreed to by the House on August 1, 1996 (421–2 [9] August 2, 1996 (98–0 ) Signed into law by President Bill Clinton on August 21, 1996 e v t [10] The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA; Pub.L. 104–191 [1], 110 Stat. 1936 [2] , enacted...
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...wrong capabilities which may lead to reduced effectiveness or increased inefficiency. In an organization where production and quality of work is central to attainment of its mandate, it is necessary that every personnel for that matter must exhibit utmost efficiency. Synonymous to this, is the slogan of former Chief of Staff, GENERAL ANGELO T REYES AFP that were posted in all military camps that says “only our best is good enough”. The scope and meaning of this slogan is for every personnel to excel in all their actions that would benefit the AFP organization as a whole. The study by Dunning (2013) thus highlights the need to strengthen the competencies of the dental technicians to ensure that the quality of work of the end-users of the equipment that these technicians are responsible for will not be negatively...
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...In a diverse country we live in, the study of psychology takes part in everyday life of a human soul. Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. It helps us understand many different roles people go through. In psychology, there are seven different schools of thought, in which they focus in different roles people behave and think. Evolutionary psychology would be the school I follow. Being a evolutionary psychologist would allow me to study how human behavior required for survival have adapted in the face of environment. Certain skill is need to learn to adapt for survival, like language. The way we communicate allows us to express our feelings, what we think and give a reasonable explanation of why we act the way we do. As well as passing down...
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...available resources with best outcomes for individuals within communities and society for now and future generations. NHS is structured into different sections to make-work more identifiable to whom to go to when need arises. There is the secretary of state for services (SSS) and the department of health (DH). The SSS is generally responsible of all the work while the DH is in charge of all the social and health care funding of England and the tactical leadership. The mission of NHS is good healthcare should be available to all, regardless of the wealth. With the expectation prescriptions, dental and optical services which are charged at low cost. “Health and high quality care for all, now and future generation” Vision simply means what the organization or company wants to achieve or accomplish in the future, it’s very hard to see an organization without a strategic plan for the future. In case to NHS, its vision is to ensure the best health care services are...
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