Dental caries in children and adolescents of Chongqing / 重庆医科大学学报

ABSTRACT

Objective:To find out the dental caries condition in children and adolescents of Chongqing to provide data basis for preliminary oral health care of Chongqing.Methods:We adopted the method for oral health investigation of WHO(1997)Firstly,we selected subjects from every section of Chongqing,then devided them into four groups according to age5-year-lod group,12-year-old group,15-year-old group and 18-year-old group.The examiners are professional dentists.Results:Data of 11592 children and adolescents were collected from 48 surveyed stations.The survey results showed that the prevalence rate of dental carries among students of kindergarten and school was 31.64%,DMFT(dmft) mean was 0.98.Filled tooth rate was 6.74%.Caries rate and DMFT(dmft) mean of female were higher than those male(p