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A longitudinal study of early childhood caries incidence in Wenzhou preschool children
BACKGROUND: Early childhood caries (ECC) is a serious public health problem in China. Few studies, however, have described the incidence of ECC in China. The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence and incidence of ECC among preschool children in Wenzhou China. METHODS: Preschool children...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5496385/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28676047 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12903-017-0394-1 |
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author | Wang, Xiping Wei, Zhiyuan Li, Qiao Mei, Liqin |
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description | BACKGROUND: Early childhood caries (ECC) is a serious public health problem in China. Few studies, however, have described the incidence of ECC in China. The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence and incidence of ECC among preschool children in Wenzhou China. METHODS: Preschool children aged 3–4 years old were surveyed and followed up when they reached 5–6 years of age in the city of Wenzhou in southeast China. The rates of dental caries were determined with prevalence, and incidence density for risk of caries of a person (ID(p)) and of a tooth surface (ID(s)). RESULTS: The prevalence and decayed, missing, and filled primary teeth (dmft) score of 3–4, 4–5, and 5-6 years old children were 59.8% and 2.9, 71.8% and 4.2, and 76.4% and 4.6, respectively. The ID(p) was 29.7 and 14.8 persons/100 person-year during the first and second year. The ID(s) was 5.9 and 2.7 newly affected surfaces/100 surface-year, respectively. The percentage of molars with caries experience increased obviously; the percentage of maxillary central incisors and mandibular incisors with caries experience increased during the first follow-up, whereas it declined during the second follow-up; the others increased gradually. CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence and incidence of dental caries in Wenzhou preschool children were very high with most of the carious teeth left untreated. The molars were the most affected teeth during the observation period. |
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spelling | pubmed-54963852017-07-05 A longitudinal study of early childhood caries incidence in Wenzhou preschool children Wang, Xiping Wei, Zhiyuan Li, Qiao Mei, Liqin BMC Oral Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Early childhood caries (ECC) is a serious public health problem in China. Few studies, however, have described the incidence of ECC in China. The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence and incidence of ECC among preschool children in Wenzhou China. METHODS: Preschool children aged 3–4 years old were surveyed and followed up when they reached 5–6 years of age in the city of Wenzhou in southeast China. The rates of dental caries were determined with prevalence, and incidence density for risk of caries of a person (ID(p)) and of a tooth surface (ID(s)). RESULTS: The prevalence and decayed, missing, and filled primary teeth (dmft) score of 3–4, 4–5, and 5-6 years old children were 59.8% and 2.9, 71.8% and 4.2, and 76.4% and 4.6, respectively. The ID(p) was 29.7 and 14.8 persons/100 person-year during the first and second year. The ID(s) was 5.9 and 2.7 newly affected surfaces/100 surface-year, respectively. The percentage of molars with caries experience increased obviously; the percentage of maxillary central incisors and mandibular incisors with caries experience increased during the first follow-up, whereas it declined during the second follow-up; the others increased gradually. CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence and incidence of dental caries in Wenzhou preschool children were very high with most of the carious teeth left untreated. The molars were the most affected teeth during the observation period. BioMed Central 2017-07-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5496385/ /pubmed/28676047 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12903-017-0394-1 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 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 Wang, Xiping Wei, Zhiyuan Li, Qiao Mei, Liqin A longitudinal study of early childhood caries incidence in Wenzhou preschool children |
title | A longitudinal study of early childhood caries incidence in Wenzhou preschool children |
title_full | A longitudinal study of early childhood caries incidence in Wenzhou preschool children |
title_fullStr | A longitudinal study of early childhood caries incidence in Wenzhou preschool children |
title_full_unstemmed | A longitudinal study of early childhood caries incidence in Wenzhou preschool children |
title_short | A longitudinal study of early childhood caries incidence in Wenzhou preschool children |
title_sort | longitudinal study of early childhood caries incidence in wenzhou preschool children |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5496385/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28676047 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12903-017-0394-1 |
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