Basal and dental arch changes in treatment of class I and II malocclusions
Date
2013
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Bamashmous, Mohamed Said
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OA Version
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Abstract
Background: Previous studies evaluating dental caries distribution in U.S school children reported that 75% of the caries are in 25% of the children. This suggests that dental caries are concentrated in a small proportion of children in the United States. However, population markers to easily identify these children have not yet been identified. Therefore, using data from Massachusetts, in our study we identify children at high risk for dental caries using population markers and examine whether the finding that 75% of the disease is found in 25% of the population applies to Massachusetts’s children.
Material and Methods: Data from Massachusetts Oral Health Screening (MOHS), a cross sectional study in 2007, was used to analyze the distribution of dental caries experience and identify markers for caries in Massachusetts’s children. The study sample was 5,547 school children from kindergarten, grades 3 and 6, and was selected using a complex survey sampling method, independently from each stratum that was defined by (county), and two-stage cluster within each county, first by schools and then by classrooms. Dentists and dental hygienists from Boston University were trained and calibrated to do the screening. Oral health status was measured by screening for dental caries as a measure of oral and dental health. Information on demographics, self-reported oral health and access to dental care was collected using a self-administrated questionnaire to parent or guardians. Demographic variables collected from the survey were used as markers for oral and dental health.
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Thesis (MSD) --Boston University, Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine, 2013 (Department of Orthodontic and Dentofacial Orthopedics).
Thesis (MSD) --Boston University, Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine, 2013 (Department of Orthodontic and Dentofacial Orthopedics).
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