The global prevalence of dental healthcare needs and unmet dental needs among adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Access to dental healthcare services is a major determinant of dental health in communities. This meta-analysis was conducted to estimate the global prevalence of dental needs and of unmet dental needs in adolescents.

Methods

PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus were searched in June 2018. The summary measures included the prevalence of met and unmet dental needs. A meta-analysis was performed using the inverse variance method to obtain pooled summary measures. Out of 41,661 retrieved articles, 57 were ultimately included.

Results

The pooled prevalence of orthodontic treatment needs was 46.0% (95% confidence interval [CI], 38.0 to 53.0), that of general treatment needs was 59.0% (95% CI, 42.0 to 75.0), that of periodontal treatment needs was 71.0% (95% CI, 46

SUBMITTER: Ghafari M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6883027 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature