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Ua60/5/1 Applied Arts & Health Dental Hygiene Student Organizations, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about Dental Hygiene student organizations.

1. Junior American Dental Hygienist's Association
2. Student Awards
3. Class of 1980

Prevalence Of Oral Mucosal Lesions And Related Risk Habits In Outpatient Dental Clinics In Malaysia And Yemen., Raji M. S. Hajeb

Student Works (2010-2019)

The purpose of this study is to determine and compare the prevalence of oral mucosal lesions (OML) and related risk habits and the influence of these habits on oral mucosal lesion prevalence among dental outpatients in Malaysia and Yemen during the period from May to October 2009. A total of 554 and 520 dental outpatients from Malaysia and Yemen with mean ages of 41.9± 17.04 years and 36.6±15.62 years respectively were interviewed and examined. The prevalence of OML namely (oral malignant lesions, potentially malignant disorders and other lesions) in Malaysia was 23.29% while the prevalence of oral mucosal lesions in …

Study Of Bacterial Diversity In The Oral Cavity Of Malaysian Subjects., Teoh Wuen Yew

Student Works (2010-2019)

About 700 species of bacteria can inhabit the human oral cavity. This project initially investigated the bacterial diversity within the oral cavity of Malaysian subjects by using culture-dependent techniques and 16S rDNA sequence analysis. The second part of the research profiled the antibiotic resistance of the identified oral bacteria by the Etest method. Three sampling sites of the oral cavity from nine healthy subjects were analyzed: the tooth surface, gingival crevice, and dorsum of the tongue. The tooth surface was shown to harbor 41 species, gingival crevice harbored 51 species and tongue dorsum 41 species. On average, each subject carried …