BACKGROUND Experience and awareness of adult females concerning dental caries is important in its prevention particularly in children because of their natural role as care givers. OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of dental caries and treatment needs in an adult female Nigerian population. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, adult females attending outreach programmes were examined ...

Objective To determine the dental caries experience and treatment needs among 5-year-olds in Albania. Research Design This cross sectional study was conducted in 2015 by using a cluster sampling technique. The dmft was used to assess dental caries experience and caries prevalence as percentages of children with dmf⟩0. Caries treatment needs were assessed with dt/dmft x 100, missing teeth with...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between the frequencies of DR and DQ HLA class II alleles and the prevalence of dental caries in Brazilian adolescents. The study sample consisted of 164 adolescents aged 15- 19 years. For the assessment of caries experience the DMFT index was used, according to World Health Organization criteria. DNA samples of the adolescents were extr...

Diabetes and salivary gland dysfunction are major factors that induce dental caries in experimental animals, but there are no reports analyzing the association of dental caries and salivary glands in an animal model of diabetes mellitus (DM). To clarify the initial development of dental caries and preceding salivary gland disorder, we performed a histopathological analysis on teeth and salivary...

Researchers conducted a final comparison of dental caries experience between the two communities prior to fluoridation. They sought to compare the mean dmft and dmfs indices, missing teeth, lifetime experience of dental caries and prevalence of toothache, extractions and general anesthesia for extractions between a continuously fluoridated area over the past 25 years (1976-1994) to a non-fluori...

BACKGROUND The non-communicable diseases dental caries and periodontal diseases pose an enormous burden on mankind. The dental biofilm is a major biological determinant common to the development of both diseases, and they share common risk factors and social determinants, important for their prevention and control. The remit of this working group was to review the current state of knowledge on ...

Dental caries, a chronic infectious disease, affects more than 90 percent of all adults in the United States and over 80 percent of all adults in Korea. Historically, caries have been prevalent since the time of pre-Neolithic humans (10,000 BC) with a reported prevalence between 1.4% and 12.1% carious teeth, but it was not until the fourteenth and fifteenth century when a sharp increase in cari...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Over 90% of adults aged 20 years or older with permanent teeth have suffered from dental caries leading to pain, infection, or even tooth loss. Although caries prevalence has decreased over the past decade, there are still about 23% of dentate adults who have untreated carious lesions in the US. Dental caries is a complex disorder affected by both individual susceptibil...

The prevalence of oral diseases in many parts of the world is staggering. 1 Consequently, many countries have, or are developing, a large cadre of professional and auxiliary personnel trained to deliver dental services. The education of these persons has tended to stress skills for reconstructing teeth and their supporting tissues after disease has occurred; teachers in most dental schools seld...

BACKGROUND Developmental dental hard tissue anomalies are often associated with oral health problems. This study determined the clinical prevalence of developmental dental hard tissue anomalies in the permanent dentition of children resident in southwestern Nigeria and its association with dental caries and poor oral hygiene status. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study recruiting 1565 sch...