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Abstract—Dental caries (DMFS) evaluations were made for 150 children in Grades 2 to 7. Three months later, a trained interviewer questioned 120 children from 100 families to determine attitudes toward oral hygiene and dental health on the part of (a) the child, (b) the parent, along with (c) the child's perception of the parent's attitude, and (d) the parent's perception of the child's attitude. Evaluation of the perceived attitudes toward oral hygiene revealed a statistically significant correlation between the child's attitude and the degree of dental health as well as between the attitudes of child and parent. Conclusions were: (1) parents were not accurate in their perception of the dental health habits of their children, (2) children were not performing acceptable routine oral hygiene procedures, (3) children accurately perceived the attitudes of their parents toward dental health, and (4) children's actual dental health behavior as manifested by dental health status was related to the attitudes of their parent

ISSN:0301-5661    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0528.1976.tb02104.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1976

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract—Chairtime needed to provide initial treatment to 80 children, 6½ to 7½ years of age, in an incremental care program was recorded. An average of 8.2 carious teeth with 14.0 carious surfaces required treatment. The clinical and radiographic examinations were concluded earlier and were not included in the chairtime recorded. One year after completion of the initial treatment, 51 of these children were reexamined to determine the maintenance treatment needs. These were found to be approximately one‐third of the initial treatment needs. The average chairtime required for initial treatment was 2 hours and 37 min. It was estimated that for complete treatment, including examination and preventive measures, 3 hours per child would be required for initial treatment and 1 hour for maintenance care each following

ISSN:0301-5661    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0528.1976.tb02105.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1976

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract—In a group of 297 persons interviewed about dental health, a random sample of 50 persons was reinterviewed by the same person, posing identical questions. The average interval between interviews was 9 months. Replies to questions concerning actual conditions, i.e. edentulousness, time of extraction and time of filling, showed a high degree of stability and constancy. The subjects' attitude to water fluoridation appeared, on the other hand, to have changed somewhat. Similarly, some of the respondents appeared to have acquired knowledge of dental health care as a result of the first interview and had altered their standpoint accordingly. Still, the results of the replies to the interview seemed reliable as defined by stability over tim

ISSN:0301-5661    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0528.1976.tb02106.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1976

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract—Clinical caries examinations, supplemented by bite‐wing radiographs, were conducted on 290 schoolchildren. The children ranged from 12 to 15 years of age and were residents of a fluoride‐deficient community in New York State. The children were divided into two groups based upon their stated daily toothbrushing frequency, namely, those brushing once or less/day and those brushing twice or more/day. Mean DMFS and DMFT scores were recorded for children in both brushing categories. A trend was noted that more frequent brushing was associated with less caries activity. For females and males‐females combined the differences in mean DMFS and DMFT scores between those children brushing two times a day or more were significantly different (P<.01) from the group brushing once a day or less. The caries scores for males in these two brushing groups were marginally significant (P<.05). Ninety percent of the children used fluoride‐containing dentifrices. The inverse relationship between brushing frequency and caries activity may be related to the more frequent fluoride contact when the child

ISSN:0301-5661    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0528.1976.tb02107.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1976

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract—The author reports on an 8‐year study with 250 mg F/kg domestic salt fluoridation. During this period the dmft index in the 2–6 years age range decreased by 41%, the DMFT index in the 7–11 years age range decreased by 58%, and in the 12–14 years age range decreased by 36%. The proportion of cariesfree children also improved significantly, from 23% to 60%, from 4.8% to 41%, and from 2.7% to 8.4%, respectively. Urinary fluoride tests performed showed that with the concentration used, enough fluoride could not be ingested to reduce caries to the level anticipated with water fluoridation, but even so the caries reduction was significant. Experiments are now continuing with 200 mg F/kg and 350 mg F/kg domestic salt

ISSN:0301-5661    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0528.1976.tb02108.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1976

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract—In 1974–75 an assessment of mottling in incisor teeth was carried out on a random sample of 13‐ to 14‐year‐old children in Liverpool, England. The number of children examined was 463. All of these children were born and had lived in Liverpool when the fluoride content of the water supply had averaged 0.12 parts/106. The mouth prevalence of mottling was 42.5%. The tooth prevalence of mottling was 9.6%. There was no sex difference. The data obtained was compared with those of other authors and confirmed that a considerable proportion of mottling observed in fluoride and non‐fluoride communities was caused by factors other than ingest

ISSN:0301-5661    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0528.1976.tb02109.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1976

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract—Before the Act of Free Trade was passed in 1856, dental caries was negligible on the Faeroe Islands. In 1936–37 a survey revealed an increasing prevalence of caries in urban compared with rural areas. The present study was undertaken in order to investigate the prevalence of dental caries among Faeroese children aged 5–13 years in relation to degree of urbanization and presence of a regular School Dental Service. Every third child was selected by a systematic sampling procedure from the total population of children aged 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13 years. 88% of the intended sample was examined in school dental clinics by one dentist according to standardized criteria. It was not possible to demonstrate any differences in mean DMFS and dmfs between children according to degree of urbanization and presence of regular School Dental Service. Furthermore, it was demonstrated that the School Dental Service as practiced at the moment is unable to reduce the amount of unfilled teeth. The very high prevalence of caries, especially in the primary dentition, is discussed in relation to planning of future dental health services on the Faeroe Is

ISSN:0301-5661    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0528.1976.tb02110.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1976

数据来源: WILEY

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Abstract—The purpose of the investigation was to determine the prevalence of occlusal anomalies in relation to dental stages (DS) in Icelandic schoolchildren, and to compare it with results from other Scandinavian countries and Ireland found on the basis of the same method. The material consisted of 1,641 randomly selected children, 791 boys and 850 girls, corresponding to 9.5 % of the total primary and secondary school population of Reykjavík. A significant sex difference was only recorded in the frequencies of two of the single morphologic traits of occlusal anomalies, the boys showing higher frequencies in deep bite and in scissors‐bite. Significant differences in the occurrence of occlusal anomalies in Iceland and Denmark were only found in two out of 108 pairs of frequen

ISSN:0301-5661    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0528.1976.tb02111.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1976

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0301-5661    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0528.1976.tb02112.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1976

数据来源: WILEY