Dental caries among 10- to 14-year-old children in Ugandan rural areas with 0.5 and 2.5 mg fluoride per liter in drinking water
| Autor: | Kjell Bjorvatn, J.M. Birkeland, C. M. Rwenyonyi, Ola Haugejorden |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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Adolescent Statistics as Topic Dentistry Rural Health Dental Caries Statistics Nonparametric World health Fluorides chemistry.chemical_compound Dietary Sucrose Risk Factors Water Supply Environmental health Humans Medicine Uganda Significant risk Child General Dentistry Tea DMF Index business.industry Rural health DMFT Index Age Factors Reproducibility of Results Liter Feeding Behavior High fluoride Cariostatic Agents chemistry Multivariate Analysis Linear Models Female Rural area business Fluoride |
| Zdroj: | Clinical Oral Investigations. 5:45-50 |
| ISSN: | 1432-6981 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/pl00010681 |
| Popis: | The purpose of this study was to report on dental caries among Ugandan children residing in rural areas with either a low or high fluoride concentration in the drinking water, and to assess factors associated with caries. A random sample of 481 children aged 10-14 years was selected from Mpondwe (n = 81) and Kyabayenze (n = 82) in the Kasese district with 0.5 mg and from Mutolere/Kagera (n = 163) and Kabindi (n = 155) in Kisoro with 2.5 mg fluoride/l in the drinking water. The children were examined for caries using the DMFT index as described by the World Health Organization in 1987. The mean DMFT was 0.34 in the whole material. In one low fluoride area, Kyabayenze, all children were caries-free compared to 75% to 86% in the other areas. In Kyabayenze, tea with sugar was taken significantly less frequently than in the other low-fluoride area. In the high-fluoride district, age and consumption of tea with sugar were positively and significantly correlated with caries. Multivariate analyses showed age to be the only significant risk indicator. |
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