Prevalence of dental caries and associated factors among 12 years old students in Eritrea.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Dental caries is one of the most prevalent diseases of childhood in developing countries. However, there is a paucity of epidemiological data on the prevalence and associated factors of dental caries in Eritrea. The objective of this study was to assess the prevalence and associated factors of dental caries among 12 years old school children in Eritrea.

Methods

A school based cross sectional study was conducted among 225 twelve years old students in two selected schools. One school from randomly selected urban and rural subzones of the country were selected. WHO adopted questionnaire and a standard checklist were used to collect relevant data. To assess dental caries, two examiners were calibrated by a certified dentist and inter observer agreement was calculated

SUBMITTER: Andegiorgish AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5747091 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature