Oral hygiene status plays major role in caries development, Study says
Recent research has revealed that occurrence of future caries in baseline caries-free participants is related to oral hygiene status and that children with baseline caries-free status should be treated with preventive interventions of different intensities and frequencies.
The study is published in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.
Caries is the most common oral disease in children, and it seriously affects children's oral health and even their whole-body health; furthermore, it causes harm to children's mental health. The high incidence of caries has not only caused a serious burden to individuals and families but has also become one of the health burdens of society as a whole.
Therefore, Siqi Yan and colleagues from the Stomatological Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China conducted the present study with the aim to investigate the new development of caries among preschoolers in northern Guangdong and to assess caries-related factors to distinguish groups with different caries risk levels.
Baseline data were recorded for participants from September to November 2019, and participants were reexamined from September to November 2020. A longitudinal observation of 11,973 preschoolers was conducted. The simplified debris index (DI-S) and decayed-missing-filled tooth (dmft) index values were obtained for each participant.
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