BACKGROUND Dental caries is a persistent public health problem with little change in the prevalence in young children over the last 20 years. Once a child contracts the disease it has a significant impact on their quality of life. There is good evidence from Cochrane reviews including trials that fluoride varnish and regular use of fluoride toothpaste can prevent caries. The Northern Ireland Ca...

BACKGROUND Dental caries is a common disease in children which causes pain with resultant effect on various physiological and social functions. The main objective of the study was to determine the association between dental caries and oral health knowledge and practice among children in Nairobi West and Mathira West Districts. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted among 639 children a...

An association between dental caries and Candida albicans, the most common fungus in human body, has been shown. However, the question that whether C. albicans acts as a caries pathogen or rather plays a role as a commensal microbe still exists. It is well known that dental caries is mainly caused by acids from bacterial fermentation. Acidogenic bacteria, such as Mutans streptococcus and Lactob...

Introduction: In South Africa information on the dental caries experiences of pre-school children with Down’s syndrome (DS) has not been reported. The aims of the study reported and discussed in this paper were to: (1) determine the dental caries status among pre-school children with DS; (2) identify the unmet treatment needs of these children by comparing the dmft/DMFT data with the Significan...

OBJECTIVE To assess the methods used and results found in two surveys, one conducted in 1984 and the other in 1995, that indicated a large reduction in the prevalence and severity of dental caries among children in Jamaica, with special attention focused on methodological differences between the two surveys and the biological factors that may explain the large reduction in caries. METHODS In ...

Dental caries (DC) is a local disease, which occurs on hard tissues of teeth leading to its destruction by oral microorganisms. Various environmental factors affect dental caries prevalence, which are diet, especially sucrose rich; demographic factors such as age and sex and improper brushing habits. Caries is a biosocial disease, as living standards improve the severity of the disease usually ...

Dental caries is an infectious disease involving all age groups. Adolescence is a period in which the risk for dental caries remains especially high. Many factors, some unique to the teenage years, contribute to the initiation and progression of dental caries in this age group. One factor with the potential for being significant is the adolescent diet, especially the high consumption of sugars....

BACKGROUND Dental caries is becoming an ever-growing challenge as the number of elders maintaining their teeth increases. There is a need for low-cost, effective preventive interventions to retain natural teeth for elders. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to evaluate evidence based interventions for dentate elders, specifically the adjunct therapies of fluoride, chlorhexidine, xylitol...

Well-baby dental visits provide early prevention and detection of dental disease for the infant and preschool child. A survey of the dental records of 379 preschool children from the ages of 6 months to 4.5 years were reviewed from a population of military family dependents. The caries activity of this population was found to be 8.9%, with a dft of 0.25. Nursing caries was clinically definable ...