Examination of Oral - Dental Health in Twins
| Autor: | MUNGAN, Nil Ceren, YARAT, Ayşen, AKYÜZ, Serap |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Zdroj: | Volume: 3, Issue: 1 20-24 European Journal of Research in Dentistry |
| ISSN: | 2630-6247 |
| Popis: | Objectives: Nowadays in pediatric dentistry, a raise in oral-dental health studies in twins, had been observed with the increasing twin births. The aim of this study was to investigate the differences in terms of oral-dental health between twin children and singleton children.Materials and Methods: A total of 180(105girls, 75 boys)children,120 of them twins and 60 of them singleton, aged 4 to 14 years,were included to the study.All children were healthy.A questionnaire,with 30 items, including the educational level of the parents, age, gender and brushing habits of the children was applied.The df-t /df-s index for primary teeth and DMF-T /DMF-S index for permanent teeth were recorded.Streptococcus Mutans(SM) values of all children were recorded with the help of chairside kits.Results: In-vitro fertilization(IVF) birth rate was 28.3% in the whole group.Furthermore, 33.3%of the children were monozygotic twins,66.6% of them were dizygotic twins.There were no statistically significant relationship between the DMFT-dft values and daily teeth brushing of children(p>0.05).A statistically significant correlation was found between mothers’ education levels and DMFT values of children(p>0.05).DMFT values of children whose mothers’ were university graduates were found to be significantly lower than those of primary and high school graduates (p>0.05).In the monozygotic group; in SM positive cases,the level of dft-dfs was statistically significantly higher than those of SM negative cases(p |
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