Dental caries and periodontal diseases in Mozambique

Domingos, Marta Artemisia Abel Mapengo; Mepatia, Amalia Issufo; Xavier, Cheila Nilza Hamina; Barrie, Robert; Naidoo, Sudeshni; Marsicano, Juliane Avansini; Sales-Peres, Sílvia Helena de Carvalho

doi:10.33448/rsd-v11i1.25221

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“…Studies about oral health in Mozambique are scarce in the literature, which does not allow us to have the real panorama of oral health status in the country [ 8 ]. The results of the dental survey for Mozambique highlights the dental disease burden, but it does not include dental risk factors or the self-perception of oral health [ 9 ]. There is no data on the access to dental services in the urban and peri-urban areas around Maputo City in Mozambique.…”

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Self-assessment of dental health status, behaviours and oral health risk factors among adolescents from public schools in Maputo City-Mozambique

Mepatia,

Myburgh,

Barrie

et al. 2024

BMC Oral Health

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Self-assessment of dental health status may have an impact on the oral health behaviour of adolescents which could impact their oral health. Oral health has been linked to various medical health conditions, thus eliminating oral health diseases can improve general health. The present study aimed to assess the association between behaviours and risk factors (oral hygiene habits, sugar intake, urban/rural status) and negative self-perception of dental health status among adolescents attending public schools in Maputo City.Method An analytic cross-sectional study, conducted in three Primary public schools from urban and peri-urban areas in Maputo City selected by convenience due to their geographic location was included. The size of the sample was 236 12-year-olds. Data was collected using a self-completion questionnaire designed by the World Health Organization (WHO). Chi-square tests or Fishers’ Exact tests were used for associations. A simple and multiple logistic regression was used to determine the strength of these associations using backward elimination (p < 0.05). Results: The sample consisted of 221 adolescents, with 114 (51.6%) residing in urban areas and 107 (48.4%) in peri-urban areas. More than half of the participants (111 individuals) reported having a negative perception of their dental health. In the urban location, a higher percentage of participants had a “negative” perception of dental health (57.9%, n = 66), while in the peri-urban location, more participants perceived their dental health as “positive” (57.9%, n = 62). Participants residing in an urban setting were 82% more likely to have a negative perception of dental health (AOR = 1.82 [95% C.I.: 1.05 to 3.14]). Those who had experienced dental pain tended to report a higher proportion of negative dental perception (57.2%, n = 91), with 2.7 times more likely to report a negative perception of dental health (AOR = 2.72 [95% C.I.: 1.46 to 5.08]). The majority (n = 139; 63.2%) claimed to clean their teeth twice a day.Conclusion There was a higher negative perception of dental health in urban areas. The need to strengthen oral health promotion in urban schools is high since schools play such a significant role in oral health promotion.

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Self-assessment of dental health status, behaviours and oral health risk factors among adolescents from public schools in Maputo City-Mozambique

Mepatia,

Myburgh,

Barrie

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BMC Oral Health

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Effect of vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms on the risk of chronic and aggressive periodontitis: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the Chinese population

Liu

Song

2022

Archives of Oral Biology

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Oral health in lower middle-income African societies - surprising outcomes and strategic consequences

Saekel

2024

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Objective: To assess the oral health status of the population in selected African countries and compare the outcomes with emerging and highly developed countries worldwide using quantifiable results. Method: By means of a composite indicator - the Dental Health Index (DHI) - the dental status of a country´s entire population is measured to arrive at a ranking of oral health performance. This performance is then compared with countries belonging to other development stages. The present study is descriptive and, whenever possible, uses existing epidemiological data from national representative surveys. Results: With the exception of Rwanda, the Sub-Saharan African countries performed better than the three North African countries of Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia, although the Arabic-speaking countries have higher Human Development Indices by comparison. Within Sub-Saharan Africa, the best rankings were achieved by Uganda, Kenya and Nigeria. However, the other Sub-Saharan countries studied also exhibited similarly low DHIs. Rwanda, Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco ranked last. One striking finding is that the Sub-Saharan countries studied show more favourable DHI outcomes than emerging or high-income countries. As large parts of the African population have been widely untouched for decades by dental services, the relatively favourable outcomes in African societies are difficult to explain and contradict conventional dental theory. The reasons behind this finding are not fully understood. It is only in the area of untreated oral diseases that the African countries perform much worse than the more developed countries. Conclusion: If African countries were to concentrate their scarce resources on a few vital segments of oral health, they would have the opportunity, in light of favourable morbidity structures, to gradually improve the oral health status of large parts of the population. Should they choose this route, priority should be given to the young generation. Three key action fields are decisive: mobilising oral self-care, enlarging the dental workforce by training sufficient mid-level personnel and creating a true primary oral health care system which is community-centred and complemented by strictly preventive, minimally invasive and tooth-retaining treatments under the guidance of a strong public sector.

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Dental caries and periodontal diseases in Mozambique

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Self-assessment of dental health status, behaviours and oral health risk factors among adolescents from public schools in Maputo City-Mozambique

Self-assessment of dental health status, behaviours and oral health risk factors among adolescents from public schools in Maputo City-Mozambique

Effect of vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms on the risk of chronic and aggressive periodontitis: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the Chinese population

Oral health in lower middle-income African societies - surprising outcomes and strategic consequences

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