Ethnic differences in caries prevalence in 5-year-olds in north-west London

The Global Prevalence and Severity of Dental Caries among Racially Minoritized Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

“…Table S4). The final number of included studies was 178, reduced to 75 as the topic of interest in this publication was children aged 5-11 years [De Souza et al, 1967;Creighton, 1969;Kailis, 1971;Beal, 1973;Jensen et al, 1973;Castellanos, 1974;Menezes, 1974;Heifetz et al, 1976;Moreira and Vieira, 1977;Hunter, 1979;Kelly and Harvey, 1979;Schamschula et al, 1980;Manji, 1983;De Muñiz, 1985;Ran and Anaise, 1985;Perkins and Sweetman, 1986;Spencer et al, 1989;Laher, 1990;Bedi and Elton, 1991;Bedi et al, , 2000Grim et al, 1994;Korenstein et al, 1995;Aleksejuniene et al, 1996;Kaste et al, 1996;Davies et al, 1997;Prendergast et al, 1997;Vargas et al, 1998;Brown et al, 2000;Gray et al, 2000;O'Rourke, 2002a, 2002b;Greer et al, 2003;Carvalho et al, 2004;Endean et al, 2004;Macek et al, 2004;Autio-Gold and Tomar, 2005;Chung et al, 2006;Jamieson et al, 2006bJamieson et al, , 2006aJamieson et al, , 2007bJam...…”

“…Samples in the included study were representative of the national population as the data were either from national surveys or long-term data from public schools. Eleven studies [Kelly and Harvey, 1979;Perkins and Sweetman, 1986;Vargas et al, 1998;O'Rourke, 2002b, 2002a;Endean et al, 2004;Masood et al, 2014;Van der Tas et al, 2016a;Mantonanaki et al, 2017;Olatosi et al, 2020;Arantes et al, 2021] reported sample size estimation. Four studies were in Portuguese [De Souza et al, 1967;Castellanos, 1974;De Campos Mello et al, 2008;Ardenghi et al, 2013], two were in Chinese [Ji et al, 2014;Qin et al, 2019], with the remainder being in English.…”