Hayatun Safrina’s research while affiliated with University of Indonesia and other places

Body piercing has been practiced universally as far back as can be traced, and now has been admitted by teens and undergraduate students. Oral complications of oral jewelry, especially tongue piercing, have been well documented, e.g. Ludwig's Angina and bifid tongue. This study was done to explore the impact of oral piercing among students. For this purpose, 32 students with oral piercing in Jakarta were asked to fill in a questionnaire form after having had intraoral piercing for less than one year. It was concluded that the subjects did not sufficiently understand the dangers of piercing. Medical and dental professionals should warn patients with piercing about potential dangers posed by this current fashion.

Generally we do not know about the presence of the barrier that cause the children, students, or patients to have dyslexia, i.e. difficulties in learning abilities on writing, spelling, speaking and counting. Physicians and dentists also face some difficulties in treating them, and sufferers are often improperly treated. At home they may be treated as if they had a physical defect, and in the school as if they were dull-witted students. Dyslexia has the characteristic of continually adhering to the patient until adult and then old age. There is no prevention for this condition, but the patient can be helped by excavating their existing potential. However, for this purpose it is necessary that the parent, educators, physicians, dentists, helpers, and people in general are aware about dyslexia.

The environments to which individuals have been exposed throughout their lives from birth to the present time have comprised the individual and community lifestyles. Lifestyles are known to be associated with physical health status. Physical health and periodontal status impacts on the life quality.Periodontal disease is generally considered to be resulted from an imbalance between potentially pathogenic microbes and the nature and efficacy of local and systemic host responses. Factors related to social environments such as poor lifestyles and negative psycosocial conditions may also be important in disease development. Good health practices are associated with better mental health status, as well as with periodontal health status.