AIM To report national data on dental caries in Danish children and adolescents from 1988 to 2001. STUDY DESIGN Descriptive cross-sectional epidemiological study. METHODS Data on dental caries for 5, 7, 12 and 15 year old individuals reported from 1988 to 2001 to the database established by the Danish National Board of Health. RESULTS Caries has decreased in all four age groups, but the d...

Anterior crossbite is one of the most common forms of malocclusion in sagittal relationship of maxilla and mandible. If not corrected at the earliest, it will cause restriction of normal growth and development of both the jaws. The incidence of anterior crossbite is 4 to 5% in primary dentition. Self-correction may occur at the transient dentition or permanent dentition stage, but treating it s...

PURPOSE The diagnosis of early carious lesions is essential for nonsurgical management of dental caries. This report describes the prevalence of early noncavitated and cavitated carious lesions in the primary dentition of 5-year-old Head Start schoolchildren in Alachua, Fla. METHODS As part of the Fluoride Varnish Study conducted at the University of Florida, modified caries diagnostic criter...

AIM A new index targeted on the risk of malocclusions in primary dentition, called Baby-ROMA (Risk Of Malocclusion Assessment) index, was set up to assess risks/benefits in early orthodontic therapies. The Baby-ROMA index was designed from the observation that some of the malocclusion signs, observed in primary dentition, can worsen with growth, others remain the same over time and others can e...

Tooth impaction rarely occurs in primary dentition. Most of the primary teeth impactions are seen in second molars. The purpose of this article is to present a 4-year-old girl with bilateral impaction of inverted primary maxillary central incisors which trauma had displaced their tooth germ before erupting.

A survey which included brief case histories and intraoral photos of four primary dentitions ranging from healthy to severely carious was mailed to a random sample of 2000 general dentists and 1000 pediatric dentists. Radiographic options were listed, from which the dentist was to indicate all films needed for each child's examination. Surveys were received from 1273 (43%) dentists, including 7...