PMID: 2104315Nov 1, 1990Paper

Evaluation of caries prevalence in children and adolescents in Zabrze subjected to planned stomatological care

Czasopismo stomatologiczne
H KurekE Olesiak-Jakubczyk

Abstract

In a group of 923 children aged 8 to 15 years (475 girls and 448 boys) caries was found in 80.61%. The intensity of the carietic process (DMF) was for the whole group 3.08 teeth. The study demonstrated increasing prevalence of caries with age. The intensit and the prevalence of caries were greater in girls than in boys. The analysis of the components of the DMF index showed a considerably large proportion of teeth with active caries with a low proportion of filled and removed teeth. The mean D index in the whole group was 2.09, in girls it was 2.22, in boys 1.93. The mean number of filled teeth was low: 0.91 for all children, 1.09 for girls, and 0.72 for boys. In the studied population the characteristic age, that is reaching of equal DMF values for the maxilla and mandible, was at the end of the 12th year of life and earlier in girls. Moreover, it was found that the intensity of caries was greatest in molar teeth and lowest in canine teeth. This was due, among others, to the condition of sixth teeth which was unsatisfactory. The mean DMF of the first permanent molars was 2.28 for the whole group, 2.46 for girls and 2.09 (teeth) for boys.

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