Association of caries experience and dental plaque with sociodemographic characteristics in elementary school-aged children: a cross-sectional study
| العنوان: | Association of caries experience and dental plaque with sociodemographic characteristics in elementary school-aged children: a cross-sectional study |
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| المؤلفون: | Samaneh Shirahmadi, Shabnam Seyedzadeh-Sabounchi, Akram Karimi-Shahanjarini, Farshid Vahdatinia, Saeed Bashirian, Ali Reza Soltanian |
| المصدر: | BMC Oral Health, Vol 18, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2018) BMC Oral Health |
| بيانات النشر: | BMC, 2018. |
| سنة النشر: | 2018 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Male, Toothbrushing, Dental plaque, Cross-sectional study, Dental Caries, Iran, Caries experience, Parental supervision, Tooth brushing, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Sex Factors, Elementary school, stomatognathic system, Risk Factors, Surveys and Questionnaires, Medicine, Humans, 030212 general & internal medicine, Child, General Dentistry, School age child, business.industry, DMF Index, 030206 dentistry, medicine.disease, lcsh:RK1-715, stomatognathic diseases, Cross-Sectional Studies, Logistic Models, Socioeconomic Factors, lcsh:Dentistry, Linear Models, Educational Status, School based, Who criteria, Female, DMFT/DMFT, business, Demography, Research Article |
| الوصف: | Background Dental caries among Iranian elementary school children aged 6–12 years continue to rise. To estimate treatment needs and guide health initiatives, current epidemiologic data are required. Such data are currently unavailable for dental health. The purpose of this study was to assess caries experience, dental plaque, and associated factors in elementary school-aged children from Iran. Methods In this cross-sectional study, 988 elementary school children aged 7–12 years were selected by multistage cluster sampling. Dental caries was studied using the WHO criteria, dental plaque was examined according to O’Leary index. Data on parental education and occupation, living district, dental pain within the past year, and tooth brushing habits under parental supervision were collected through interviews based on questionnaire. The data were analyzed with descriptive statistics and logistic and linear regression. Results The mean (SD) age of the elementary school children was 9.64 (1.73) years. The highest dmft was seen in elementary school children aged 7–8 years 6.53 (4.37) and the highest DMFT and dental plaque was in 12 year olds recorded as 1.17 (1.77) and 51.97 (25.86), respectively. The proportion of decayed teeth in 7 years old elementary school based on dmft index was 80.36%, moreover, the proportion in 12 years old elementary school was 40.17% based on the DMFT index. Age, gender, and dental pain within the past year were significantly associated with DMFT and dmft. The odds of developing dental caries (DMFT) was 1.70 times higher in girls than in boys (p |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1472-6831 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::234bd3d55d4e590cfd3a8c53806f6b93Test http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12903-017-0464-4Test |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....234bd3d55d4e590cfd3a8c53806f6b93 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 14726831 |
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