OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence and experience of early childhood caries among 5- to 6-year-old children in Southeast Asia. METHODS A literature search was conducted of three electronic databases (PubMed, EMBASE and ISI Web of Science) to identify publications from the years 2006 to 2015. Additional hand searches of government reports and national studies were pe...

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate oral hygiene status, salivary fluoride concentration, and Streptococcus mutans Lactobacillus levels in saliva of thalassemic, hemophilic individuals without any other systemic disorders.Materials Methods: A total 162 (44 healthy individuals, 86 thalassemic 32 patients) were selected, randomly (n=30 each group), the patients allocated Group A: condition, B...

Nghiên cứu được thực hiện trên 758 trẻ em tại tỉnh Vĩnh Phúc, tuổi từ 2-4 tuổi, học 1 số trường mầm non Phúc. Mục tiêu: mô tả và đánh giá tình trạng sâu răng trước sau dự phòng ở một nhóm thành phố Yên, Phương pháp nghiên cứu: Mô cắt ngang can thiệp cộng đồng không đối chứng. Kết quả: Tỷ lệ mắc là 71,4%; dmft: 5,63±5,46; dmfs: 8,58±10,27; Sau Vecni fluor, có 47,2% mặt tổn thương mức 2 trở về bì...

Objective: The aim of the study is to evaluate role diet quality and oral flora on dental health in childhood period.
 Methods: A cross-sectional was carried out with participation 98 children aged 9-14 their parents who applied Pedodontics Clinic Dental Faculty Marmara University. decayed, missing, filled tooth surfaces DMFT, DMFS indexes were determined through visual examination. Anthro...

The objectives of the present study were to establish dental caries prevalence (percentage with caries) and experience in the primary and permanent dentition (dmft and DMFT) of 6 to 13-year-old schoolchildren in Campeche, Mexico, and to estimate the contributing roles of the likely risk indicators. A cross-sectional study was carried out in 1,644 children aged 6-13 years. Self-administered ques...

BACKGROUND Psychiatric patients have increased comorbid physical illness. There is less information concerning dental disease in this population in spite of risk factors including diet and psychotropic side-effects (such as xerostomia). Aims To compare the oral health of people with severe mental illness with that of the general population. METHOD A systematic search for studies from the past...

A 2-year double-blind randomized three-treatment controlled parallel-group clinical study compared the anti-caries efficacy of two dentifrices containing 1.5% arginine, an insoluble calcium compound (di-calcium phosphate or calcium carbonate) and 1,450 ppm fluoride (F), as sodium monofluorophosphate, to a control dentifrice containing 1,450 ppm F, as sodium fluoride, in a silica base. The 6,000...

The aim of this epidemiological study was to assess the prevalence of malocclusion, associated caries experience, and level of oral hygiene in the Hungarian population using the World Health Organisation (WHO) questionnaire designed to assess dentofacial anomalies. A total of 483 adolescents (289 girls, 194 boys), aged 16-18 years, were assessed. Orthodontic anomalies were detected in 70.4 per ...

AIM To evaluate the benefit-cost (B/C) and cost-effectiveness (C/E) of a long-term dental health education program to prevention early childhood caries (ECC) through home visits. METHODS The data collected over a three year period in a dental health education programme (DHE), previously reported [Kowash et al., 2000] for infants aged 8 months at start were analysed for B/C and C/E. Dental car...

AIM Child oral health-related quality of life (COHRQoL) has been assessed in developed areas; however, it remains unstudied in mainland China. Studies on COHRQoL would benefit a large number of children in China suffering from oral health problems such as dental caries. This study explored the relationship between COHRQoL and early childhood caries, adjusted by socioeconomic factors, in 3- to 4...