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Prevalence of dental caries in Pakistan: a systematic review and meta-analysis
BACKGROUND: Optimum oral health is impossible to achieve without managing dental caries. The first step to manage dental caries at a community level is to know its prevalence and trend. Unfortunately, the prevalence of dental caries at the national/regional level is not known in many developing coun...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8447584/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34530810 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12903-021-01802-x |
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author | Siddiqui, Ammar Ahmed Alshammary, Freah Mulla, Mushir Al-Zubaidi, Saad M. Afroze, Eman Amin, Junaid Amin, Salman Shaikh, Sameer Madfa, Ahmed A. Alam, Mohammad Khursheed |
author_facet | Siddiqui, Ammar Ahmed Alshammary, Freah Mulla, Mushir Al-Zubaidi, Saad M. Afroze, Eman Amin, Junaid Amin, Salman Shaikh, Sameer Madfa, Ahmed A. Alam, Mohammad Khursheed |
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description | BACKGROUND: Optimum oral health is impossible to achieve without managing dental caries. The first step to manage dental caries at a community level is to know its prevalence and trend. Unfortunately, the prevalence of dental caries at the national/regional level is not known in many developing countries. Pakistan is no exception. The present meta-analysis was planned to document the prevalence of dental caries at the national, as well as regional level. This paper will serve as a baseline for making future health policies, and health promotion activities in the country. METHODS: Literature was searched through various databases, such as PubMed, SCOPUS, and Web of science using: "Prevalence", "Dental Caries", "Dental Decay" and "Severity" as keywords. Any study that reported the prevalence of dental caries, and was conducted in the Pakistani population was included. Thirty studies fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Quality assessment of all the included studies was performed using Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) critical appraisal checklist for prevalence studies. MedCalc software was used to analyze the data. RESULTS: In total 27,878 subjects were included in a meta-analysis from 30 studies. The prevalence estimate of dental caries at the national level was 56.62% (95% CI: 49.54 to 63.57). The I(2) value was 99.07% (95% CI: 98.94 to 99.18), (I(2) > 75%) indicating heterogeneity, hence pooled proportion was reported using a random-effect model. The prevalence estimate of dental caries in Sindh was 58.946% (95% CI: 43.796 to 73.274), and in Punjab, it was 55.445% (95% CI: 44.174 to 66.44), whilst in Baluchistan and KPK combined was 51.168% (95% CI: 22.930 to 79.004). CONCLUSION: Based on the existing data nearly 60% of the Pakistani population have dental caries. The proportion is almost the same in all provinces. Most of the included studies were found to be of high risk. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12903-021-01802-x. |
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spelling | pubmed-84475842021-09-17 Prevalence of dental caries in Pakistan: a systematic review and meta-analysis Siddiqui, Ammar Ahmed Alshammary, Freah Mulla, Mushir Al-Zubaidi, Saad M. Afroze, Eman Amin, Junaid Amin, Salman Shaikh, Sameer Madfa, Ahmed A. Alam, Mohammad Khursheed BMC Oral Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Optimum oral health is impossible to achieve without managing dental caries. The first step to manage dental caries at a community level is to know its prevalence and trend. Unfortunately, the prevalence of dental caries at the national/regional level is not known in many developing countries. Pakistan is no exception. The present meta-analysis was planned to document the prevalence of dental caries at the national, as well as regional level. This paper will serve as a baseline for making future health policies, and health promotion activities in the country. METHODS: Literature was searched through various databases, such as PubMed, SCOPUS, and Web of science using: "Prevalence", "Dental Caries", "Dental Decay" and "Severity" as keywords. Any study that reported the prevalence of dental caries, and was conducted in the Pakistani population was included. Thirty studies fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Quality assessment of all the included studies was performed using Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) critical appraisal checklist for prevalence studies. MedCalc software was used to analyze the data. RESULTS: In total 27,878 subjects were included in a meta-analysis from 30 studies. The prevalence estimate of dental caries at the national level was 56.62% (95% CI: 49.54 to 63.57). The I(2) value was 99.07% (95% CI: 98.94 to 99.18), (I(2) > 75%) indicating heterogeneity, hence pooled proportion was reported using a random-effect model. The prevalence estimate of dental caries in Sindh was 58.946% (95% CI: 43.796 to 73.274), and in Punjab, it was 55.445% (95% CI: 44.174 to 66.44), whilst in Baluchistan and KPK combined was 51.168% (95% CI: 22.930 to 79.004). CONCLUSION: Based on the existing data nearly 60% of the Pakistani population have dental caries. The proportion is almost the same in all provinces. Most of the included studies were found to be of high risk. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12903-021-01802-x. BioMed Central 2021-09-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8447584/ /pubmed/34530810 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12903-021-01802-x Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Siddiqui, Ammar Ahmed Alshammary, Freah Mulla, Mushir Al-Zubaidi, Saad M. Afroze, Eman Amin, Junaid Amin, Salman Shaikh, Sameer Madfa, Ahmed A. Alam, Mohammad Khursheed Prevalence of dental caries in Pakistan: a systematic review and meta-analysis |
title | Prevalence of dental caries in Pakistan: a systematic review and meta-analysis |
title_full | Prevalence of dental caries in Pakistan: a systematic review and meta-analysis |
title_fullStr | Prevalence of dental caries in Pakistan: a systematic review and meta-analysis |
title_full_unstemmed | Prevalence of dental caries in Pakistan: a systematic review and meta-analysis |
title_short | Prevalence of dental caries in Pakistan: a systematic review and meta-analysis |
title_sort | prevalence of dental caries in pakistan: a systematic review and meta-analysis |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8447584/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34530810 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12903-021-01802-x |
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