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Prevalence of Dental Caries among the Population of Gwalior (India) in Relation of Different Associated Factors

OBJECTIVES: India is unique in entire world due to variety of dietary habits in population. Many people of India follow totally vegetarian life style through their entire life time due to some religious and cultural reasons. Present study tried to analyze the role of different factors in the occurre...

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Autores principales: Khan, Abdul Arif, Jain, Sudhir K., Shrivastav, Archana
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dental Investigations Society 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2633160/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19212515
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author Khan, Abdul Arif
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description OBJECTIVES: India is unique in entire world due to variety of dietary habits in population. Many people of India follow totally vegetarian life style through their entire life time due to some religious and cultural reasons. Present study tried to analyze the role of different factors in the occurrence of dental caries including dietary habit. METHODS: Persons suffering with dental caries were examined for the type of dental caries in relation to different factors. Dental examination was performed and patients were asked a questionnaire and the data was recorded and analyzed. RESULTS: Incidence of dental caries was higher in female. High number of dental caries patients was observed among vegetarian population. 21–30 year age group was found to be most infected with dental caries. CONCLUSIONS: This study can be helpful to analyze respective role of different dietary factors including protein rich diet, age, gender etc. on the prevalence of dental caries, which can be helpful to counteract the potential increase in the cases of dental caries and to design and plan preventive strategies for the persons at greatest risk.
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spelling pubmed-26331602009-02-11 Prevalence of Dental Caries among the Population of Gwalior (India) in Relation of Different Associated Factors Khan, Abdul Arif Jain, Sudhir K. Shrivastav, Archana Eur J Dent Original Articles OBJECTIVES: India is unique in entire world due to variety of dietary habits in population. Many people of India follow totally vegetarian life style through their entire life time due to some religious and cultural reasons. Present study tried to analyze the role of different factors in the occurrence of dental caries including dietary habit. METHODS: Persons suffering with dental caries were examined for the type of dental caries in relation to different factors. Dental examination was performed and patients were asked a questionnaire and the data was recorded and analyzed. RESULTS: Incidence of dental caries was higher in female. High number of dental caries patients was observed among vegetarian population. 21–30 year age group was found to be most infected with dental caries. CONCLUSIONS: This study can be helpful to analyze respective role of different dietary factors including protein rich diet, age, gender etc. on the prevalence of dental caries, which can be helpful to counteract the potential increase in the cases of dental caries and to design and plan preventive strategies for the persons at greatest risk. Dental Investigations Society 2008-04 /pmc/articles/PMC2633160/ /pubmed/19212515 Text en Copyright 2008 European Journal of Dentistry. All rights reserved.
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Khan, Abdul Arif
Jain, Sudhir K.
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Prevalence of Dental Caries among the Population of Gwalior (India) in Relation of Different Associated Factors
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title_full Prevalence of Dental Caries among the Population of Gwalior (India) in Relation of Different Associated Factors
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title_full_unstemmed Prevalence of Dental Caries among the Population of Gwalior (India) in Relation of Different Associated Factors
title_short Prevalence of Dental Caries among the Population of Gwalior (India) in Relation of Different Associated Factors
title_sort prevalence of dental caries among the population of gwalior (india) in relation of different associated factors
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2633160/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19212515
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