Dental Occlusion among School Going Children of Maharashtra

BACKGROUND: A dental survey was conducted among the school going children of age group 6-13 yrs, focused to find out incidence of malocclusion so as to predict the probable time at which preventive measures can be taken. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A survey was carried on 985 unrelated healthy subject, i...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Mukesh, Banerjee, Prasenjit, Gondhalekar, Rajesh, Gondhalekar, Rajeshri, Lall, Rajeev, Parwani, Rajkumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dentmedpub Research and Printing Co 2014
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Original Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4148574/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25214733
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author Kumar, Mukesh
Banerjee, Prasenjit
Gondhalekar, Rajesh
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Lall, Rajeev
Parwani, Rajkumar
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description BACKGROUND: A dental survey was conducted among the school going children of age group 6-13 yrs, focused to find out incidence of malocclusion so as to predict the probable time at which preventive measures can be taken. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A survey was carried on 985 unrelated healthy subject, including of 575 boys and 410 girls and the population was divided into three economic group of upper, middle and lower class. RESULTS: 1).. In the study 57% of sample is found with normal occlusion. 2).. The proportion of malocclusion was higher in males. 3).. Lower income group sample showed highest proportion of malocclusion. CONCLUSION: In this study on school going children, it was found out that 57% of population showed normal occlusion and that malocclusion was higher in males and in lower income group population.
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spelling pubmed-41485742014-09-11 Dental Occlusion among School Going Children of Maharashtra Kumar, Mukesh Banerjee, Prasenjit Gondhalekar, Rajesh Gondhalekar, Rajeshri Lall, Rajeev Parwani, Rajkumar J Int Oral Health Original Research BACKGROUND: A dental survey was conducted among the school going children of age group 6-13 yrs, focused to find out incidence of malocclusion so as to predict the probable time at which preventive measures can be taken. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A survey was carried on 985 unrelated healthy subject, including of 575 boys and 410 girls and the population was divided into three economic group of upper, middle and lower class. RESULTS: 1).. In the study 57% of sample is found with normal occlusion. 2).. The proportion of malocclusion was higher in males. 3).. Lower income group sample showed highest proportion of malocclusion. CONCLUSION: In this study on school going children, it was found out that 57% of population showed normal occlusion and that malocclusion was higher in males and in lower income group population. Dentmedpub Research and Printing Co 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4148574/ /pubmed/25214733 Text en Copyright: © J. Int Oral Health http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Dental Occlusion among School Going Children of Maharashtra
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