2014
DOI: 10.4317/medoral.19096
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Cross-sectional study of malocclusion in Spanish children

Abstract: Objectives: This study was conducted to determine the orthodontic treatment need of the child population of the Valencia region of Spain, employing the DAI and the IOTN, to examine the relations between treatment need, socio-economic data and gender and to assess the diagnostic agreement between the two indices. Study Design: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in a random representative sample of the schoolchild population of the Valencia region of Spain. The sample size was a total of 765 child… Show more

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“…We also found that 18.6% of children aged 9-12 required orthodontic treatment with regard to the IOTN DHC. This result is similar to the figure of 18.9% noted for a sample of 8-12-year-olds in the Lesser Poland region [27]; 15.4% in a sample of 9-year-old Spanish children in Valencia [14]; 21.3% in a sample of 9-12-year-olds in France [16]; and 21.8% along with 20.9% in the case of a group of 12-year-olds in Spain [14,17,33].…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 83%
“…We also found that 18.6% of children aged 9-12 required orthodontic treatment with regard to the IOTN DHC. This result is similar to the figure of 18.9% noted for a sample of 8-12-year-olds in the Lesser Poland region [27]; 15.4% in a sample of 9-year-old Spanish children in Valencia [14]; 21.3% in a sample of 9-12-year-olds in France [16]; and 21.8% along with 20.9% in the case of a group of 12-year-olds in Spain [14,17,33].…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 83%
“…A transversal study, both descriptive and analytical, was set up in the context of the 2018 Oral Health Study in the Spanish region known as Comunidad Valenciana. The sample size was established according to the prevalence of malocclusion in the 2010 study; the rates were: 20.9% at the age of 12 and 12.7% at the age of 15 16 , with a 95% confidence level and a precision level of 4%, resulting in a sufficiently large sample size of 687 patients to carry out the study.…”
Section: Materials and Methodologymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Regarding the malocclusion in general, it is thought that the need for orthodontic treatment among teenagers aged from 12–15 years is around 20% [ 3 ], among adults aged 35–44 years it is 31.3% according to the Dental Aesthetic Index (DAI), but 19.2% according to the Index of Orthodontic Treatment Need (IOTN), and 21% according to patients’ subjective perception [ 4 ].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%