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Dental caries prevalence and treatment needs of 5- to 12-year-old children in relation to area-based income and immigrant background in Greece
- Source :
- Int Dent J
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Elsevier, 2020.
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Abstract
- Objectives: To investigate the association between certain socio-demographic characteristics and dental health status of 5- to 12-year-old children attending public kindergarten and primary schools in Piraeus, Greece. Methods: Gender, age, place of residence, immigrant background and area-based income were associated with dental caries prevalence, treatment needs and oral hygiene level in 5,116 children. Results: The mean number of decayed, missing and filled deciduous teeth (dmft) and Unmet Restorative Treatment Needs Index (UTN) at 6-year-olds were 1.54 and 84.6% respectively, and the DMFT and UTN at 12-year-olds were 1.35 and 71.8%. Caries experience/severity significantly increased with age, whereas treatment needs and oral hygiene level decreased (P
- Subjects :
- Male
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty
Multivariate analysis
Urban Population
Cross-sectional study
Dental Caries
Oral hygiene
Statistics, Nonparametric
Statistical significance
Poverty Areas
Epidemiology
Oral and maxillofacial pathology
medicine
Deciduous teeth
Prevalence
Humans
Child
General Dentistry
Health Services Needs and Demand
Greece
business.industry
DMF Index
Emigration and Immigration
medicine.disease
Oral Hygiene
stomatognathic diseases
medicine.anatomical_structure
Cross-Sectional Studies
El Niño
Child, Preschool
Multivariate Analysis
Income
Original Article
Female
business
Demography
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Int Dent J
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....62b01132cdf3277c792a05fa89add6c4