Dental caries in preschool children in Bilac, Brazil
| Autor: | Franklin Delano Soares Forte, RJ Martins, Saliba Moimaz, N.A. das Saliba, C.A. das Saliba Garbin |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Dental decay medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) Infant Newborn Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Infant General Medicine Dental Caries Deciduous dentition World health Age Distribution Child Preschool Environmental health Epidemiology Prevalence medicine Humans Female business Brazil |
| Zdroj: | Scopus Repositório Institucional da UNESP Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) instacron:UNESP |
| Popis: | The incidence of dental decay has decreased in the world. Over the last 10 years, epidemiological studies in children aged 0–60 months in the Brazilian cities of Aracatuba, Araraquara, Bauru, Brasilia, Brasilia, Diadema, Goiânia, Juiz de Fora, Londrina, Natal and Piracicaba found the lowest incidence of caries in deciduous dentition in Goiânia (13%) and the highest incidence in Natal (71%). These studies are important in order to plan future programmes and to evaluate the development pattern of caries in this age group, so that intervention with a preventive and/or restorative approach can be adopted. The aim of this study was to verify the prevalence of tooth decay in children of both genders, aged 0–60 months, in Bilac, Sao Paulo State, Brazil, where the public water supply is not fluoridated. Tooth examinations were performed on the National Vaccination Day by a single examiner, trained and calibrated for the DMF (decayed, missing, filled) index, according to the diagnostic criteria described by the World Health Organization WHO (1997). Intra-examiner agreement for dental caries diagnosis was |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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