Oral health and microflora in an institutionalised elderly population in Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A cross sectional study was undertaken to assess the oral health of a group of elderly, long-term care, institutionalised residents in a facility in Edmonton, Canada. In addition, the oral occurrence of Candida and coliform micro-organisms was evaluated to examine the relationship between oral health status and oral prevalence of these opportunistic pathogens. The mean age of 63 examined individuals was 83.4 (± 17.6) years; 28.6 per cent were dentate with a DMF score of 22.4; 4.5 per cent of teeth exhibited root caries. Of the edentate, 55.5 per cent were wearing complete maxillary and mandibular dentures; 59 per cent of the maxillary dentures and 20 per cent of mandibular dentures were found to exhibit good retention and stability while the remaining prostheses were deemed to be poor; 17 per cent of individuals had neither teeth or dentures. Denture stomatitis was the most common mucosal lesion and was found amongst one third of the denture wearers. Three quarters of the residents harboured oral yeasts, 30 per cent coliforms and a significant number exhibited poor oral hygiene and oral pathoses for which remedial treatment was readily available in the form of subsidised dental care. © 1999 FDI/World Dental Press.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".