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This volume, sponsored by the Committee on Vital and Health Statistics Monographs of the Statistics Section of the American Public Health Association, as explained by its senior author, is an effort to "marshal, present, and document the essentials about the main problems of dentistry." The dental "problems" encompassed are dental caries, periodontal disease, oral cancer and the major dentofacial deformities of malocclusion and cleft lip and palate. This somewhat small volume contains five chapters, each surveying a specific oral pathology or impairment. Each chapter presents a brief epidemiologic history of the particular disease category, compiled from a wide array of sources and often from nonepidemiologic studies. A discussion of the etiology of the disorder in terms of existing knowledge is included il the analysis. Specific factors related to the distribution of the oral disorder in the population are presented in statistical detail, ranging from such demographic characteristics as age, sex, race and geographical area to sociological dimensions of socioeconomic status, religion (in some instances), family status, and other factors that might feasibly be related to the incidence and/or prevalence of these disorders. Aspects of diagnosis and treatment of particular interest to dental practitioners are also frequently presented. |
