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Prevalence of early childhood caries and enamel defects in four and five-year old Qatari preschool children
BACKGROUND: Dental caries is the most prevalent chronic disease in early childhood in most communities worldwide. Several studies conducted in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries have documented a high prevalence of early childhood caries (ECC). To date, no studies have been conducted in Qatar to...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4989346/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27539009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12903-016-0267-z |
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author | Alkhtib, Asmaa Ghanim, Aghareed Temple-Smith, Meredith Messer, Louise Brearley Pirotta, Marie Morgan, Michael |
author_facet | Alkhtib, Asmaa Ghanim, Aghareed Temple-Smith, Meredith Messer, Louise Brearley Pirotta, Marie Morgan, Michael |
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description | BACKGROUND: Dental caries is the most prevalent chronic disease in early childhood in most communities worldwide. Several studies conducted in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries have documented a high prevalence of early childhood caries (ECC). To date, no studies have been conducted in Qatar to examine the prevalence of ECC and enamel developmental defects in preschool children. The present study aimed to determine the prevalence of ECC and enamel defects in preschool children aged four and five years attending kindergartens in Qatar. METHODS: A descriptive cross-sectional study was performed among 250 children randomly selected from 16 public kindergartens. Caries experience was measured using the World Health Organization caries criteria (dmft) for tooth rather than surface; enamel defects were scored by the modified developmental defects of enamel index. Descriptive statistics and Chi-Square test of relatedness were used. RESULTS: A response rate of 63 % was reported. The overall caries prevalence of the study sample was 89.2 %; 15.6 % of the examined children had ECC and 73.6 % had severe ECC. Developmental enamel defects were present in 39 % of children and 27 % had demarcated enamel opacities. CONCLUSION: The high rate of dental caries and enamel defects recorded in this study for this young age group has strongly emphasized the necessity of community-based preventive programs and professional care that should begin during pregnancy and in early childhood. |
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spelling | pubmed-49893462016-08-19 Prevalence of early childhood caries and enamel defects in four and five-year old Qatari preschool children Alkhtib, Asmaa Ghanim, Aghareed Temple-Smith, Meredith Messer, Louise Brearley Pirotta, Marie Morgan, Michael BMC Oral Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Dental caries is the most prevalent chronic disease in early childhood in most communities worldwide. Several studies conducted in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries have documented a high prevalence of early childhood caries (ECC). To date, no studies have been conducted in Qatar to examine the prevalence of ECC and enamel developmental defects in preschool children. The present study aimed to determine the prevalence of ECC and enamel defects in preschool children aged four and five years attending kindergartens in Qatar. METHODS: A descriptive cross-sectional study was performed among 250 children randomly selected from 16 public kindergartens. Caries experience was measured using the World Health Organization caries criteria (dmft) for tooth rather than surface; enamel defects were scored by the modified developmental defects of enamel index. Descriptive statistics and Chi-Square test of relatedness were used. RESULTS: A response rate of 63 % was reported. The overall caries prevalence of the study sample was 89.2 %; 15.6 % of the examined children had ECC and 73.6 % had severe ECC. Developmental enamel defects were present in 39 % of children and 27 % had demarcated enamel opacities. CONCLUSION: The high rate of dental caries and enamel defects recorded in this study for this young age group has strongly emphasized the necessity of community-based preventive programs and professional care that should begin during pregnancy and in early childhood. BioMed Central 2016-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4989346/ /pubmed/27539009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12903-016-0267-z Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Alkhtib, Asmaa Ghanim, Aghareed Temple-Smith, Meredith Messer, Louise Brearley Pirotta, Marie Morgan, Michael Prevalence of early childhood caries and enamel defects in four and five-year old Qatari preschool children |
title | Prevalence of early childhood caries and enamel defects in four and five-year old Qatari preschool children |
title_full | Prevalence of early childhood caries and enamel defects in four and five-year old Qatari preschool children |
title_fullStr | Prevalence of early childhood caries and enamel defects in four and five-year old Qatari preschool children |
title_full_unstemmed | Prevalence of early childhood caries and enamel defects in four and five-year old Qatari preschool children |
title_short | Prevalence of early childhood caries and enamel defects in four and five-year old Qatari preschool children |
title_sort | prevalence of early childhood caries and enamel defects in four and five-year old qatari preschool children |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4989346/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27539009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12903-016-0267-z |
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