Decayed, Missing due to caries, and Filled Teeth index significantly associated with UDA events
Decayed, Missing due to caries, and Filled Teeth index is significantly associated with Unscheduled dental attendances (UDA) events, according to a recent study published in the British Dental Journal.
Unscheduled dental attendances (UDA) and the associated morbidity can cause individual distress, disrupt military effectiveness and have broader societal impacts. Preventing future dental morbidity is an essential component of dentistry. This, the largest study of its type, aimed to examine the relationship between clinical and demographic variables and UDA and to quantify how well military dental risk categorisation predicts subsequent UDA events.
This is a retrospective cohort analysis of a clinical dataset containing 175,558 service personnel over an 11-month period. Statistical methods examined: sensitivity and specificity of the existing NATO 'Dental fitness classification system' (NATO Cat) in predicting UDA, relative risk (RR) of UDA by selected variables, Kaplan-Meier failure analysis and multivariate analysis.
The results of the study are:
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