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Community Dental Health

Cover Date
March 2009
Print ISSN
0265 539X
Electronic ISSN
Vol
26
Issue
1

Articles from this issue

TitlePage StartPage EndD.O.I.
Editorial - Closing the gap in a generation: Health equity through action on the social determinants of health. A Report of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) 2008. 2 3 10.1922/CDH_2500Sheiham02
Thanks to Referees 4 4
Predictive tool for estimating the potential effect of water fluoridation on dental caries 5 11 10.1922/CDH_2352Tickle07
Dental caries prevalence and distribution among preschoolers in Singapore 12 17 10.1922/CDH_2267Hsu06
Oral health in German children, adolescents, adults and senior citizens in 2005 18 22 10.1922/CDH_2392Schiffner05
Caries prevalence and fluoride use in low SES children in Clermont-Ferrand (France) 23 28 10.1922/CDH_2226Jeannin06
Previous radiographic experience of children referred for dental extractions under general anaesthesia in the UK. 29 31 10.1922/CDH_2232Rodd03
The prevalence of dental caries and fissure sealants in 12 year old children by disadvantaged status in Dublin (Ireland). 32 37 10.1922/CDH_2261Sagheri06
Childhood growth and dental caries 38 42 10.1922/CDH_2225Mohammadi05
Measurement of attitudes of UK dental practitioners to core job constructs. 43 51 10.1922/CDH_2294Harris09
Dental general anaesthesia - will the service disappear? A pilot study 52 57 10.1922/CDH_2150Milsom06
Orthodontic treatment need and oral health-related quality among children 58 61 10.1922/CDH_2245Zhang04
Short Communication - Changing dental caries levels in the 1980’s, 1990’s and 2005 among children of a Jerusalem region. 62 64 10.1922/CDH_2291SganCohen03


Short Communication - Changing dental caries levels in the 1980’s, 1990’s and 2005 among children of a Jerusalem region.


Article Price £10.00
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D.O.I.
10.1922/CDH_2291SganCohen03
Authors
  • H.D. Sgan-Cohen
  • D. Amram-Liani
  • A. Livny

Abstract

Objective To study caries levels and related variables among first grade and fourth grade schoolchildren in one Jerusalem geographic region in 2005, and possible changes in caries levels over three decades: the 1980s, 1990s and finally in 2005. Methods Dental caries was examined, within schools, employing the DMFS and defs indices, for permanent and deciduous teeth respectively. Results Data indicate a consistent decline in disease: a reduction from 1.64 to 0.32 to 0.16 for DMFS, and 13.95 to 8.09 to 5.07 for defs (1983, 1992, 2005, respectively), among first grade children; and from 3.50 to 2.50 to 1.07 for DMFS, and 13.88 to 7.26 to 4.16 for defs, (1983, 1992, 2005, respectively), among fourth grade children. Conclusions A consistent decrease in caries has been detected over three decades. Specific causal factors were not ascertained.

Key words: Caries prevalence, defs, DMFS, Israel, schoolchildren


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