DMF rates: a comparison by age and sex over a one year period
Date
1973
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Authors
Hines, Edwin Harold
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OA Version
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Abstract
The purpose of this study is to determine by epidemiological methods the dental caries prevalence and a one year incremental decay rate, per permanent tooth, of a randomly selected group of pre-high school children in a nonflouridated community.
An effort will be made to determine the age, from 4 years old to early teens, at which the decay prevalence is highest and the age at which the greatest attack rate by decay is noted over a period of one year. This information will be compiled by computer for both girls and boys.
The specific effort of this work is directed toward the determination of the following for both boys and girls examined once in the 1970-71 school year and once again in the 1971-72 school year:
1) Decay prevalence of each tooth, permanent only, as determined by oral examination.
2) The increase in number of carious lesions of each permanent tooth, as determined by oral examination after one year.
3) Total number of sound teeth per child and any changes in their condition over the one year period.
4) Total number of unerupted or extracted teeth, primary and permanent, per child and any changes over the one year period.
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Thesis (M.Sc.D.)--Boston University, School of Graduate Dentistry, 1973 (Pedodontics)
Bibliography included.
Thesis (M.Sc.D.)--Boston University, School of Graduate Dentistry, 1973 (Pedodontics)
Bibliography included.
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