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Short-Term Effect Of Preventative Oral Health Services On Drug Rehabilitation Clients' Self Concept, Susan Elizabeth Jones

Dental Hygiene Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine if a statistically significant difference existed in self concept prior to and following preventive oral health services in clients undergoing drug rehabilitation. Individuals residing at the Drug Dependency Treatment Program Unit at McGuire Veterans Administration Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, comprised the control and experimental groups.

Data were organized according to a randomized groups, pretest-posttest design with preventive oral health services as the active independent variable. The dependent variables, Total Positive Score, Self Satisfaction Score, and Physical Self Score were measured by the Tennessee Self Concept Scale.

One grouping factor, one trial factor …

Oral Health Care Services Available To Mentally Retarded Individuals In Public Residential Facilities, Marilynn Mattox

Dental Hygiene Theses & Dissertations

A growing awareness of the rights of institutionalized persons to receive comprehensive health care, including dentistry, has led to increased legislation in favor of handicapped individuals including the mentally retarded. Mentally retarded persons have a right to adequate health care, education, training rehabilitiation, and guidance that will enable them to develop their ability and maximum potential.

Mental retardation has in the past been defined as a condition that exists solely within an individual; more recent definitions have shifted to include "a condition that is an interaction between an individual and a particular environment. The environment in which a mentally retarded …

#39 - Look Mom, No Cavities!, Department Of Health Education

Keys to Total Health

- Nutritions for Teeth

- Results of Poor Teeth

- A Mouthful of Tools

- False Teeth

- Tooth Decay Begins in Childhood

- Teen-Age Years

- Causes of Decay

- The Real Culprit

- How About Honey?

- Hidden Sugars

- Eating Between Meals

- Periodontal Disease

- Natural Tooth Brushes

- Prevention Decay

- Quiz

Ua60/5 Wku Dental Hygiene Class Of 1980, Wku Dental Hygiene

WKU Archives Records

Members of the 1980 dental hygiene class: Cathy Carrico, Sally Raffensperger, Pam Hughes, Tammy Willis, Lou Ann Hinton, Karen Justiss, Ruth Dougherty, LeAnn Scott, Debbie Dorris, Rhyia Miller, Vickie Little, Pat Oliver, Leslie Luttrell and Judy Cavanah.