Consumer Health

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Consumer Health

• Dental Care

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Dental Health Care

• Extent of dental health needs
• Practitioners
• Types care
• Selecting a dentist
• Self-Care care
• Questionable Procedures

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Extent of Dental Health Needs

• Untreated dental decay (caries)
• Dental care behavior
• Dental exam, cleaning in last year
• College Students 77 US, 68 Cal Poly
• Student wants/needs
• Brushing and flossing

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Top 5 Behaviors to ImprovePercent Very Serious
and Serious about Improving
55 eat less than 5 servings per day
32 did not use a time planner in past 3 months
Text boxes show results from independent samples
of students taking Health Risk Appraisals
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6th - 10th Behaviors Percent Very Serious and
Serious about Improving
33 do not use seatbelts 100 of the time
53 do not do CV exercise 3 times/week
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Major Health Problems

• Tooth Decay
• Caused bacteria
• Periodontal Disease
• 80 of population
• Inflammation
• Degenerative

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Costs

• Dental services
• 54,000,000,000
• 20 to 141/visit
• Estimates
• 645 - 7,960
• Toothless
• 20 of adults over 45 years old
• 50 of gt65 year olds

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Practitioners

• Dentists
• DDS
• DMD
• Nine Specialties
• Auxiliary Dental Personnel
• Denturists

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Selecting a Dentist

• Sources
• Family physician
• ADA
• Find a Dentist
• Dental Schools

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Questionable Procedures

• Hair analysis
• Mandibular Orthopedic Repositioning Appliances
  (MORAs)
• Auriculotherapy
• Oxyfresh
• Neuraligic-Induced Cavitational Osteonecrosis
  (NICO)

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Summary

• Extent of dental health needs
• Practitioners
• Types care
• Selecting a dentist
• Self-Care care
• Questionable Procedures

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Exam QuestionsSamples only may not be on exam

• Key issues for consumers are
• Problems with Products
• Problems with Services
• Problems with Costs
• All of the above
• Quackery is the promotion of a false or unproven
  method for profit
• True or False

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Exam QuestionsSamples only may not be on exam

• Functions of media are to (which is not true)
• Entertain
• Provide only government approved inform
• Carry advertisements and make money
• After completing his or her undergraduate,
  medical school, and graduate medical education, a
  physician still must obtain a license to practice
  medicine from
• US Government
• a State
• A county
• The American Medical Assocation

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11th - 15th Behaviors Percent Very Serious and
Serious about Improving
63 do not do strength exercise 2 times/week
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16th - 22nd Behaviors Percent Very Serious and
Serious about Improving

• 16th Do a short relaxation exercise regularly
  (43)
• 17th Losing weight (43)
• 18th Driving at safer speeds (40)
• 19th Being less hostile and aggressive (35)
• 20th Using safer sex skills when I have sex
  (35)
• 21st Reducing money I owe on loans (35)
• 22nd Do BSE or TSE regularly (28)

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23rd - 29nd Behaviors Percent Very Serious and
Serious about Improving

• 23rd Get tested for STI or HIV (26)
• 24th Get Pap tests regularly (25 of all
  students)
• 60 of females
• 25th Get blood pressure checked (22)
• 26th Get cholesterol checked (19)
• 27th Abstaining from sex (18)
• 28th Gaining weight (17)
• 29th Reduce caffeine intake (16)

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30th - 34th Behaviors Percent Very Serious and
Serious about Improving
22 of CP students abused alcohol by having
binged at least one time in the past 2 weeks
7 smoke daily, 20 smoked in past 30 days
About 2 use spit tobacco
gt2 used cocaine, 16 used marijuana in past year
15 to 30 may have an eating disorder