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Caries incidence in children in one rural and suburban area in Croatia

The aim of the present study was to assess the level of dental health in permanent dentition in children from rural and suburban part of Croatia. Assessment was provided using clinical and non-clinical variables that can be obtained through everyday clinical practice. Patients and Methods The research was conducted on 410 examinees (177 male and 233 female) aged between 12 and 18 years. Each examine was subjected to the same procedure. A questionnaire has been completed for all examinees and the clinical data was collected by a well trained and calibrated researcher (intraexaminer Kappa value=0.84). The study has permission of Ethical Committee, School of Dental Medicine, Univ. of Zagreb and written informing consent of children parents. Collected data were statistically processed and base on that we can make the following conclusions. Results Children from rural and suburban regions of Bjelovar-Bilogora County show very high values for the DMFT and SiC indices. DMFT index amounts to 5.35. The obtained SiC index value was 9.13. The percentage of orthodontic anomalies was 63.9%. From these results it can be concluded that we are still very far away from the goals set by WHO and FDI for the improvement of oral health. Conclusions In order to bring oral health to standards set by WHO and FDI it is essential to improve children’s education on oral hygiene, improve the quality of their diet, as well as to make them undergo regular dental examinations, whose aim is to reduce future use of curatives in dentistry.

caries incidence; children; Croatia

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