The Related Factors of Caries Incidence and the Impact on Daily Performance of School Children
| Autor: | Ling-Ting Huang, 黃琳婷 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 97 Background: Caries is a common problem among elementary school students in Taiwan. The development of caries is rather complex. Consequently, it results in more children’s oral disease problems, and these problems can influence behavior. So, we used the follow-up study to analyze the related factors inducing new caries and to discuss how oral cavity problems affect children’s daily life. Aim： The purposes of this study were to study and trace the change of children’s caries, related factors and the influence over school children’s daily life over a period of 27 months. Methods: A prospective follow-up was employed in this study. Study participants were recruited from the first to the fifth grade of an elementary school in Kaohsiung County. For each grade, 3 classes were randomly selected, with a total of 504 subjects. The study started from December 2005. We did the second oral examination 10 months later, and the third in March 2008. Finally, the number of subjects was reduced to 354 (including 202 boys and 152 girls) owing to school children graduation or transfer. The completion rate of this study was 70.23%. Result: In the study, we found the DMFT index increased by 0.63 (p |
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