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SOS Teeth: Age and Sex Differences in the Prevalence of First Priority Teeth among a National Representative Sample of Young and Middle-Aged Adults
Background: “SOS teeth” are defined as the first priority teeth for treatment, that have distinct cavitation reaching the pulp chamber or only root fragments are present. Objectives: To assess the prevalence and distribution of SOS teeth with regard to age and sex difference among young to middle-ag...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7370026/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32640510 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17134847 |
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author | Almoznino, Galit Abramovitz, Itzhak Kessler Baruch, Ortal Kedem, Ron Protter, Noam E. Levine, Jonathan Bader, Tarif Yavnai, Nirit Zur, Dorit Mijiritsky, Eitan Shay, Boaz |
author_facet | Almoznino, Galit Abramovitz, Itzhak Kessler Baruch, Ortal Kedem, Ron Protter, Noam E. Levine, Jonathan Bader, Tarif Yavnai, Nirit Zur, Dorit Mijiritsky, Eitan Shay, Boaz |
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description | Background: “SOS teeth” are defined as the first priority teeth for treatment, that have distinct cavitation reaching the pulp chamber or only root fragments are present. Objectives: To assess the prevalence and distribution of SOS teeth with regard to age and sex difference among young to middle-aged adults. Methods: This is a cross-sectional records-based study of a nationally representative sample, consisting of young to middle-aged military personnel, who attended the military dental clinics of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for one year. SOS teeth definition corresponds to code number 6 of the “Caries Assessment Spectrum and Treatment (CAST)” as an instrument to assess dental caries. Data pertaining to age and sex were drawn from the central demographic database and that of SOS teeth were obtained from the Dental Patient Record (DPR). Results: The study included 132,529 dental records. The prevalence of patients with SOS teeth was 9.18 % (12,146/132,323). The number of teeth that were found to be SOS teeth was 18,300, i.e., 1.5 SOS teeth per “diseased” patient (18,300/12,146). The mean number of SOS teeth per the whole study population was 0.14 ± 0.52 and the range was 0–20. The mean number of SOS teeth per patient had a statistically significant negative correlation with age (p < 0.001; Odds Ratio (OR) = 0.997; 95% confidence interval: 0.997–0.998) and with male sex compared to females (p < 0.001; OR = 1.029 confidence interval: 1.023–1.036). Conclusion: Assessment of first priority SOS teeth may be part of the dentist’s work-up. It provides dentists and health authorities with useful information regarding urgent dental care needs to plan dental services. |
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spelling | pubmed-73700262020-07-21 SOS Teeth: Age and Sex Differences in the Prevalence of First Priority Teeth among a National Representative Sample of Young and Middle-Aged Adults Almoznino, Galit Abramovitz, Itzhak Kessler Baruch, Ortal Kedem, Ron Protter, Noam E. Levine, Jonathan Bader, Tarif Yavnai, Nirit Zur, Dorit Mijiritsky, Eitan Shay, Boaz Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Background: “SOS teeth” are defined as the first priority teeth for treatment, that have distinct cavitation reaching the pulp chamber or only root fragments are present. Objectives: To assess the prevalence and distribution of SOS teeth with regard to age and sex difference among young to middle-aged adults. Methods: This is a cross-sectional records-based study of a nationally representative sample, consisting of young to middle-aged military personnel, who attended the military dental clinics of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for one year. SOS teeth definition corresponds to code number 6 of the “Caries Assessment Spectrum and Treatment (CAST)” as an instrument to assess dental caries. Data pertaining to age and sex were drawn from the central demographic database and that of SOS teeth were obtained from the Dental Patient Record (DPR). Results: The study included 132,529 dental records. The prevalence of patients with SOS teeth was 9.18 % (12,146/132,323). The number of teeth that were found to be SOS teeth was 18,300, i.e., 1.5 SOS teeth per “diseased” patient (18,300/12,146). The mean number of SOS teeth per the whole study population was 0.14 ± 0.52 and the range was 0–20. The mean number of SOS teeth per patient had a statistically significant negative correlation with age (p < 0.001; Odds Ratio (OR) = 0.997; 95% confidence interval: 0.997–0.998) and with male sex compared to females (p < 0.001; OR = 1.029 confidence interval: 1.023–1.036). Conclusion: Assessment of first priority SOS teeth may be part of the dentist’s work-up. It provides dentists and health authorities with useful information regarding urgent dental care needs to plan dental services. MDPI 2020-07-06 2020-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7370026/ /pubmed/32640510 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17134847 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Almoznino, Galit Abramovitz, Itzhak Kessler Baruch, Ortal Kedem, Ron Protter, Noam E. Levine, Jonathan Bader, Tarif Yavnai, Nirit Zur, Dorit Mijiritsky, Eitan Shay, Boaz SOS Teeth: Age and Sex Differences in the Prevalence of First Priority Teeth among a National Representative Sample of Young and Middle-Aged Adults |
title | SOS Teeth: Age and Sex Differences in the Prevalence of First Priority Teeth among a National Representative Sample of Young and Middle-Aged Adults |
title_full | SOS Teeth: Age and Sex Differences in the Prevalence of First Priority Teeth among a National Representative Sample of Young and Middle-Aged Adults |
title_fullStr | SOS Teeth: Age and Sex Differences in the Prevalence of First Priority Teeth among a National Representative Sample of Young and Middle-Aged Adults |
title_full_unstemmed | SOS Teeth: Age and Sex Differences in the Prevalence of First Priority Teeth among a National Representative Sample of Young and Middle-Aged Adults |
title_short | SOS Teeth: Age and Sex Differences in the Prevalence of First Priority Teeth among a National Representative Sample of Young and Middle-Aged Adults |
title_sort | sos teeth: age and sex differences in the prevalence of first priority teeth among a national representative sample of young and middle-aged adults |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7370026/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32640510 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17134847 |
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