Epidemiology and Public Health Aspects of Caries and Periodontal Disease

Greene, John C.; Suomi, John D.

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“…All these findings concerning caries distribution are in agreement with those of other authors (2,3,11,15,17). In both the maxillary and mandibular teeth, the first molars were most frequently affected, followed by the second molars.…”

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“…Most studies of caries prevalence in permanent teeth of children have found a greater caries rate in girls than in boys ofthe same age group (2,3,11,14,15). And a steady increase of the DMFT and DMFS scores with increasing age has been established (2,3,11,(14)(15)(16)(17).…”

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“…A higher prevalence of periodontal disease has been found in boys than in girls (3,5,8,(10)(11)(12). Although it has not been proved to be statistically significant in all age groups, girls on the average show better oral hygiene than boys of the same age (1,3,5,13).…”

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Oral health survey in Haitian and Hamburg children aged 12–15

Franz¹,

Götze²

1983

Comm Dent Oral Epid

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Oral hygiene, dental caries and periodontal diseases surveyed in 1743 children aged 12-15. Of these 879 of Black origin resided in Haiti (West Indies) and 864 of White origin in Hamburg (West Germany). Oral hygiene was assessed using the Greene & Vermillion's OHI-S, periodontal status using Ramfjord's PDI and Mühlemann's SBI and the caries rate using the DMFT and DMFS indices. Boys of all age groups showed significantly poorer oral hygiene than girls. In the Hamburg children the mean OHI-S was 1.28, in Haitians 1.14. Periodontal diseases showed equal prevalence in Haiti and Hamburg when expressed in PDI, namely 0.59, while SBI was slightly higher in the Haitians, namely 2.58 against 2.21 in the Hamburg Children. Hamburg girls showed lower PDI and SBI scores than all boys and Haitian girls. Same degrees of OHI-S caused more severe periodontal diseases among Haitian than among German children. In general, scores of OHI-S, PDI and SBI increased with age except in Haitian girls, who showed a decrease. The DMFT and DMFS of the Haitian children averaged 3.65 and 4.80 respectively, and those of the Hamburg children 8.35 and 21.09.

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Oral health survey in Haitian and Hamburg children aged 12–15

Franz¹,

Götze²

1983

Comm Dent Oral Epid

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“…The advent of this disease appears to be fairly recent in the history of man. Virtually unknown in ancient times, the prevalence of caries has increased with time until it has become almost ubiquitous in modern man 7 . The notion that dental caries is an infectious, transmissible disease was first demonstrated by Keyes (1960).…”

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Acquired Oral Microflora of Newborns During the First 48 Hours of Life

Rosenblatt¹,

Steinberg²,

Mankuta³

et al. 2015

Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry

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“…2 Several epidemiological studies are underway in a wide variety of countries, both in the developed world and the developing world. [3][4][5][6][7] In many developing countries, dental healthcare suffers from a deficiency of financial resources and the lack of well-trained dentists. 8 Estimation of treatment need is an important stage in oral health care planning.…”

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