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As a result of scientific advancements and changing demographics in the United States and around the world, people of all ethnic groups and nationalities are retaining their teeth longer. Today's oral health professionals must therefore be prepared to make educated and scientifically-reasoned choices addressing a wide range of oral diseases for patients of all ages, and for ambulatory as well as non-ambulatory patients across all demographic profiles. As the first text of its kind, it explores the full spectrum of epidemiological and translational clinical research including fundamental mechanisms of human disease, therapeutic intervention, clinical trials, and oral epidemiology. Topics that are unique to oral health, such as the frequent use of split-mouth design on oral research, crossover techniques and clustered nature of caries, periodontal and other dental disease data, are all thoroughly addressed.
Definition and background -- Study design -- Associations and causation -- Measuring associations -- Error and bias -- Confounding and effect measure modification -- Analytical approaches : the data -- Analytical approaches : analyses -- Qualitative research -- Survey sampling and surveillance -- Pharmacoepidemiology -- Molecular and genetic epidemiology -- Dental caries -- Periodontal diseases -- Oral cancer -- Other oral diseases and conditions -- Fluorides -- Social epidemiology -- Bioethics in oral health -- Systems thinking.
Includes bibliographical references and index.