User:TanyaRasha/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
 Oral hygiene as a level 4 vital article in WikiProject Dentistry 

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I am currently a dental assistant and planning on going to dental school in the fall. I wanted to see and learn more about ways I can talk to patients regarding their oral hygiene and how to improve it. Oral hygiene should be more prominent since the mouth is the gateway to the body, you can find so many things that are happening in the body just by looking in the mouth whether you see nutritional deficiencies or any active infection that is transpiring. My preliminary impression of the article was it had lots of important things to talk about that more people should know. I didn't know some facts and I had learned so much from the article.

Evaluate the article
Content:

I have noticed in the gum care section that there is not a reference for this as well as enough content. Under Oral Hygiene Instructions, it only provides a link so there could be more added like actual instructions written along with its citation in order to have the viewers get to the point quicker and stay on one page. Emphasis on preventative measure should also be a topic of discussion in this encyclopedia article. Going to the dentist at least twice a month for a cleaning and comprehensive exam as well as using fluoride at the office are also preventative measures that can be taken for oral hygiene. They could talk more about other traditional ways people do in order to strengthen their oral hygiene in other countries such as China, Middle Eastern countries and other countries. In China, they have a special tea that helps strengthen the enamel. In the Middle East, there is a special toothbrush called the Miswak; it also helps strengthen teeth as well. The content is recent since the last edit was on 1/9/2021.

Tone:

I believe the article is neutral. There could be more viewpoints towards underserved communities that may lack such emphasis on preventative measures in other parts of the world such as third world countries and refugees not knowing the importance of fluoride use and to visit a dentist twice a month not when they have jarring pain.

Sources:

None of the sources are biased. There are a lot of different types of sources and citations. I believe most of the citations work. There is about 75 different sources for this article.

Talk:

It is apart of 3 WikiProjects for Health and fitness, Medicine and Dentistry. The articles are rated by what information are given out and what importance they give to techniques of improving oral hygiene. Some of the conversations that are said are how some articles can be odd since they can look like how-to-manual pamphlets. Some of the users need help with citations or to add more to certain topics in the conversations. The talk is also a bit outdated since it was last edited in 2018.