Rob M H Schaub

• DDS, PhD
• Professor Emeritus at University of Groningen

To assess the association between the performance of school-based dental programs (SBDPs) and oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) in school children, in the province of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, taking into account untreated caries and sociodemographic factors. A cross-sectional survey was administered with 1906 children aged 12 and participa...

Occupational determinants of ill health in dentists were systematically reviewed in literature. The methodological quality of the studies was evaluated. Studies were included if they evaluated health-related risk factors in dental practice by means of quantitative methods and statistical analysis of collected data. Despite all the factors affecting...

To identify barriers of delivering oral health care to older people experienced by dentists. A comprehensive literature search was carried out for studies published in the period January 1990-December 2011, using free text and MESH term search strategies for PubMed (Medline), EMBASE and CINAHL. The initial search identified 236 potentially relevant...

To assess the effectiveness of a school-based dental programme (SBDP) in controlling caries by measuring the relationship between the SBDP performance and caries experience in children aged 12 in Yogyakarta Province, Indonesia, by taking into account influencing factors. A cross-sectional survey was undertaken of 1906 children participating in SBDP...

Although demographic change in most populations worldwide shows elderly representing the fastest growing part of their populations, scientific research on antipsychotic treatment in the elderly just recently has started. Indications for antipsychotic treatment in the elderly include schizophrenia, schizo-affective, bipolar and unipolar affective di...

Background: A high prevalence of caries at ages ≥ 12 in Yogyakarta province (DMFT = 6.5), raises the question of the effectiveness of the school-based dental program (SBDP) which, as a national oral health program in schools, is organized by community health centers (CHCs). Purpose: The aim of this study is to explore the possible constraints on wo...

In the thesis 'Barriers to effective periodontal care, published in 1984, an investigation was described on professional periodontal care lagging behind the development of periodontology. The objectives of the investigation were to assess whether dentists were treating periodontal disease as a behavioural problem using effective communication techn...

Because dental health and oral pathology may affect forensic psychiatric patients' well being, it is important to be able to assess oral health related quality of life (OH-QoL) in these patients. Two studies were conducted among Dutch forensic psychiatric male patients to assess the psychometric properties and some potential predictors of the Oral...

Professionalism is considered as a core competency for dentists. As a result of changes in the healthcare sector, it is becoming increasingly important for dentists to be more transparent to the community in their delivery of care. The ability'to provide justification' thus becomes an important skill. To train dentists to become professionals who c...

Empirical research on antipsychotic treatment in the elderly just recently has started, although demographic change in most societies worldwide shows that elderly are the fastest growing part of populations. Particularly in patients with dementia, antipsychotic treatment for BPSD (behavioural and psychological signs of dementia) is one of the most...

De wijze waarop verschillende beroepsbeoefenaren in de mondzorg samenwerken varieert sterk. Hoewel een gedetailleerd inzicht ontbreekt, zijn er voldoende aanwijzingen dat iedere samenwerking eigenlijk als uniek is te bestempelen. Dat kan, want de mondzorg wordt gekenmerkt door vrij ondernemerschap. Verschillen in organisatie worden zelfs wenselijk...

In het vorige hoofdstuk is al aangegeven dat er verschillende redenen zijn om samen te werken in de mondzorg. Samenwerking kan dan ook gericht zijn op verschillende doelen. Daarbij spelen allerlei omstandigheden een meer of minder belangrijke rol. In dit hoofdstuk wordt betoogd dat samenwerking zelfs onvermijdelijk is. Dat heeft alles te maken met...

Het is essentieel voor het (voort) bestaan van een samenwerking dat iedereen helder en duidelijk weet waarom wordt samen gewerkt. In hoofdstuk 10 wordt het belang van doelen vanuit de praktijk helder geïllustreerd. Ook in andere hoofdstukken wordt vanuit een eigen perspectief aandacht besteed aan doelen, zoals in hoofdstuk 2 over de doelen die maat...

Al geruime tijd is het beleid van de overheid erop gericht de samenwerking in de zorg te bevorderen. Dit beleid heeft zijn vruchten afgeworpen: inmiddels zijn rond de 2000 praktijken (40% van de Nederlandse praktijken) aan te merken als samenwerkingspraktijk: meer dan één bevoegde tandarts werkt er samen met een wisselend aantal mondhygiënisten, as...

In recent years, a specialization in geriatric dentistry has been established and along with it an educational programme. A specialist in geriatric dentistry is a dentist general practitioner with special knowledge and skills for delivering oral care to frail elderly people. The educational programme aims at an increase in dentists serving in geria...

Abstract The purpose of this study was to assess the success of the dental hygienist in the dental health education of dental patients in general dental practice. Special emphasis was laid on health education in the field of periodontics. The answers on a questionnaire of 159 dental patients who visited a dental hygienist were compared with the ans...

Continuous quality improvement (CQI) can be envisaged as a circular process of goal-setting, followed by external and internal evaluations resulting in improvements that can serve as goals for a next cycle. The need for CQI is apparent, because of public accountability, maintaining European standards and the improvement of dental education. Many ex...

Continuous quality improvement (CQI) can be envisaged as a circular process of goal-setting, followed by external and internal evaluations resulting in improvements that can serve as goals for a next cycle. The need for CQI is apparent, because of public accountability, maintaining European standards and the improvement of dental education. Many ex...

Als jaarlijks bij volwassen patiënten met een gezond gebit bitewings gemaakt worden, is dat dan zinvol voor het beheersen van het cariësproces? Wat is het nut van frequent verwijderen van supragingivaal tandsteen linguaal van het onderfront? En als daar geen antwoord op komt, is er dan sprake van overbehandeling? Overbehandeling is een complex con...

Volgens hoogleraar Schaub is er sprake van 'een musical zonder regisseur' Er wordt in tandheelkundig Nederland veel gefilosofeerd en verondersteld als het over de toekomst van de mondzorg gaat. In het kader van de platformfunctie van het NT, wordt met dit nummer een reeks over de toekomst van de tandheelkunde gestart. 'Officiële' spelers uit het ta...

Blueprint 2000 Education of dentists in the Netherlands includes nationally developed objectives for the dentist at graduation. The changing state of oral health of the population and oral health care require a dentist trained in a broad range of dental subjects. Intellectual and scientific training should be an important aspect of undergraduate ed...

Dental treatment is changing to oral health care, integrating curative treatment and care. This development is based on the present state of oral health of elderly people. In the future, elderly persons are expected to receive adequate oral health care. This requires gerodontic knowledge and skills, as most oral health problems of elderly persons a...

The perception and significance of dental appearance was investigated in three groups of patients. One group had a missing front tooth replaced by partial dentures, which were taken out during the tests. A second group had some missing (pre-)molars. A third group had a complete natural dentition and they acted as control group. Color photographs of...

The purpose of this study was to assess the success of the dental hygienist in the dental health education of dental patients in general dental practice. Special emphasis was laid on health education in the field of periodontics. The answers on a questionnaire of 159 dental patients who visited a dental hygienist were compared with the answers of 3...

The purpose of the study was to assess whether cooperation with a dental hygienist was based on pursuit of financial gain or on aspirations to improve patient care. To this end a questionnaire was sent to 972 dentists. 412 dentists replied, of whom 178 had patients treated by a dental hygienist. Questions were asked regarding practice profile, prev...

A group of 109 subjects received a short questionnaire concerning their general health status. The subjects were invited to recall all the (health) problems experienced in the foregoing 6 months. Every participant in this study had visited the dentist, in the 6 months preceding the investigation, because of a dental problem. If these dental problem...

The impact of loss of teeth on chewing ability was investigated in three groups of patients. One group already had missing teeth replaced by partial dentures, which were taken out during the tests. This group was taken as not being adapted to chew without a complete dentition. A second group had their missing teeth not replaced by partial dentures....

The process of not attending the dentist is a vicious cycle in which anxiety plays a crucial role. A research project concerning the disease and non-disease reasons for full mouth extraction provided an opportunity to describe the dental histories in terms of dental attendance pattern and related factors which resulted in full dentures. Three profi...

A hypothesis was developed that the impact or importance of oral health problems may be reflected in a person's ability to remember these problems occurring in a given period spontaneously. That means that the recollection should occur on a nonspecific stimulant, i.e. a general question regarding recall of health problems. This hypothesis was first...

Full mouth extraction is the final step in a continuous process in which not only dental but also social processes play a role. In a research project concerning the reasons for full mouth extractions in The Netherlands, it was found that over one-third of the patients had considered full mouth extractions at least once before, and 16% considered it...

Reasons for full mouth extraction in an urban and a rural area in The Netherlands (dentist-patient ratio 1:2500 and 1:5700 respectively) have been studied. Patients who participated in this combined sociodental research project were those who received full mouth extractions over a period of 1 yr. The combined patient response was 75% and the overal...

In order to determine the relative importance of periodontal disease, caries and non-disease reasons for full mouth extractions, a combined sociodental study was carried out in an urban and a rural area in the Netherlands. In the largest proportion of patients (57%) caries was the predominant disease. In only a small group (13%) was periodontal bre...

The efficacy of a mucin-coniaining saliva substitute was assessed in terms of changes in oral functioning and the psychic and social implications of these changes. Thirty-nine patients with xerostomia filled out a questionnaire before application of the artificial saliva and after six weeks of usage. The artificial saliva was applied with a spray....

Edentulousness varies with the availability and accessibility of dental care. Comparing the dental status of groups of patients getting full dentures might give insight into the effect of different levels of supply of dental care on the dental condition. Therefore a research project has been started in the Netherlands in an urban and a rural area,...

Abstract The majority of the Dutch elderly population wears full dentures. According to clinical standards these dentures are often of a poor quality. The treatment demand, however, is small. The purpose of the present study is to describe the quality of dentures by means of clinical criteria on the one hand and judgments of the patients on the oth...

The quality of complete dentures among the Dutch elderly population is often rather poor. Besides, complaints are frequently reported. It is unclear whether these denture problems affect the quality of life. In this study the relationship between the presence of denture problems and the perceived quality of life was considered. Thirty-one edentulou...

The aim of this investigation was to describe and to compare the effectiveness of a CMC- and a mucin-containing saliva substitute. 22 post-radiation patients, 17 Sjögren's Syndrome patients and 3 patients with xerostomia of unknown origin used a CMC- and a mucin-containing saliva substitute, each for 1 week in an arbitrary sequence. Neither the pat...

Differences in total tooth loss between an urban and a rural area (dentist-patient ratio 1:2500 and 1:5700 respectively) have been studied. Patients who participated in this study were those who received total tooth extraction during the calendar yr 1982 (urban area) and 1983 (rural area). The overall dentist response was 90%, the combined patient...

A combined sociodental research project was started in the city of Groningen in 1982 aimed at gaining insight into the reasons for total tooth extraction. Patients showing up for total tooth extraction during 1982 participated in this study by filling out a questionnaire concerning the underlying reasons for their decision to have all their teeth e...

Seventy-five percent of the Dutch elderly population has full dentures. Despite the fact that many have problems with their dentures, demand for care is low. This explorative study focuses on the individuals' own explanation of this phenomenon. Thirty-one persons over 55 years of age participated. The data were obtained from content-analysis of tap...

In this investigation, the subjective impressions of patients, suffering from severe xerostomia, have been recorded after symptomatic treatment with different CMC- and mucin-containing artificial saliva over 3 years. A total number of 137 patients divided into 3 groups participated. Group I (40 patients) used CMC-containing artificial saliva, group...