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Descriptor English: Oral Hygiene
Descriptor Spanish: Higiene Bucal
Descriptor higiene bucal
Entry term(s) higiene dental
Scope note: Práctica de higiene personal de la boca. Incluye el mantenimiento de la limpieza oral, tono tisular y la preservación general de la salud oral.
Descriptor Portuguese: Higiene Bucal
Descriptor French: Hygiène buccodentaire
Entry term(s): Dental Hygiene
Hygiene, Dental
Hygiene, Oral
Tree number(s): E02.547.600
E06.761.726
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009910
Scope note: The practice of personal hygiene of the mouth. It includes the maintenance of oral cleanliness, tissue tone, and general preservation of oral health.
Annotation: differentiate from ORAL HEALTH; oral hyg is care toward maintaining good oral health performed by the person himself or a caregiver in the case of invalid or disabled persons; differentiate also from DENTAL CARE, care by professionals; for oral hyg using dental floss, water picks, etc. use DENTAL DEVICES, HOME CARE or TOOTHBRUSHING
Allowable Qualifiers: AE adverse effects
CL classification
EC economics
ED education
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
MO mortality
MT methods
NU nursing
PX psychology
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
VE veterinary
Previous Indexing: Oral Health (1966-1972)
Public MeSH Note: 73; DENTAL HYGIENE was heading 1963-64, was see DENTAL PROPHYLAXIS 1991
Online Note: use DENTAL PROPHYLAXIS to search DENTAL HYGIENE 1991
History Note: 73; DENTAL HYGIENE was heading 1963-64, was see DENTAL PROPHYLAXIS 1991
Related: Dental Devices, Home Care MeSH
Toothbrushing MeSH
DeCS ID: 10090
Unique ID: D009910
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1973/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1992/12/28
Oral Hygiene - Preferred
Concept UI M0015368
Scope note The practice of personal hygiene of the mouth. It includes the maintenance of oral cleanliness, tissue tone, and general preservation of oral health.
Preferred term Oral Hygiene
Entry term(s) Dental Hygiene
Hygiene, Dental
Hygiene, Oral



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