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- Title: Intake of Sweet Drinks and Sweet Treats Versus Reported and Observed Caries Experience (Report)
- Author : European Archives of Paediatric Dentistry
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 281 KB
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Introduction An increase in dental caries in young children in Australia was reported recently by the School Dental Service (SDS). Since SDS data collection commenced in 1977, decreasing dmft/DMFT scores and improved dental health of Australian children had been attributed to the introduction of community water fluoridation [AIHW, 1998]. However, increasing caries experience of 6 yr-old and 12 yr-old children has been reported from the mid to late 1990's by the SDS [Armfield and Spencer, 2008]. In the most recent Australian child dental health survey conducted in 2002 and reported in 2007, 47.4% of 6 yr-olds had experienced caries in the primary dentition; the mean dmft was 1.96 (SD: 3.01), and the 10% of children with the greatest caries experience had more than nine cariously-affected teeth [Armfield et al., 2007]. For 12 yr-olds, over 40% had experienced caries in their permanent teeth; the mean DMFT was 1.02 (SD: 1.73) and the 10% of children with the greatest caries experience had nearly five cariously-affected teeth, exceeding the national average by almost five and a half-fold [Armfield et al., 2007]. Children living in low-fluoride areas had poorer dental health than those living in optimally-fluoridated areas, regardless of socioeconomic disadvantage [Armfield et al., 2007].
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