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Dental Caries Status of 14-16 Year Old Adolescents in Yangsan Area

  • Journal of the Korean academy of pediatric dentistry
  • Abbr : J Korean Acad Pediatr Dent
  • 2014, 41(1), pp.8-17
  • DOI : 10.5933/JKAPD.2014.41.1.8
  • Publisher : The Korean Academy Of Pediatric Dentistry
  • Research Area : Medicine and Pharmacy > Dentistry

권보민 1 배익현 1 Shin Kim 2 Jiyeon Kim 2 Tae-sung Jeong ORD ID 2

1부산대학교 치의학전문대학원 소아치과학교실
2부산대학교

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ABSTRACT

Although adolescents usually show peculiar aspects in oral health status, there have been not so many studiesabout it, while there have been innumerable studies for children. This study aimed at evaluating the prevalenceof dental caries of adolescents in Yangsan in Republic of Korea, detecting its contributing factors, and distinguishingthe high-risk group by epidemiological mass survey. Besides, the significance including early carieslesion in diagnosis criteria was assessed with minimal invasive concept. This survey was performed on 1,371 adolescents aged 14 to 16 in Yangsan as subject examinees by a singletrained examiner. The dental caries status was checked by oral examination at schools and questionnaire surveywas accompanied for some relevant risk factors. The data were analyzed to yield the results as follows:Regarding the caries experience, the DMFT score by WHO criteria with ECL including or not was 4.79 and3.97 respectively. In both the criteria, female showed higher values and that of high-risk group was almosttwice compared with whole examinees by Sic Index. About pit & fissure sealed rate, it revealed the tendency that the more sealed teeth, the lower DMFT values. Among the studied risk factors, only the habit of brushing before going to bed showed positive relationship (p <0.05).

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