Decrease in and polarization of dental caries occurrence among child and youth populations, 1976-1993

Caries Research
M VehkalahtiP Heikkilä

Abstract

With data on children's dental state from 1976 to 1993, we evaluated how the size of the high-caries group has changed concurrently with simultaneously decreasing mean numbers of teeth with past or current caries. Information related to all dental check-ups done for 5- and 15-year-olds in Helsinki, some 4,000 subjects of each age by year, consisted of numbers of teeth with caries experience (dmft or DMFT) and of all decayed teeth (dt + DT). Polarization of dental caries was described as the proportion of high-caries groups in each year, both in terms of caries experience and current untreated caries, diagnosed at subjects' annual clinical dental check-ups. For 5-year-olds, the high-caries group by caries experience included patients with their dmft > or = 3. For 15-year-olds the limits were set at DMFT > or = 6 and DMFT > or = 15. The high-caries group in terms of untreated caries was similar for both age groups: dt + DT > or = 3. Furthermore, polarization of caries was calculated as the share of numbers of both dmf or DMF teeth and dt + DT in each high-caries group of the total number of such teeth in the entire age cohort. During the 17 years, mean dmft for 5-year-olds decreased from 4.6 to 0.8 and mean dt + DT from 0.9 to 0....Continue Reading

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