Dental Caries, Oral Health Behavior, and Living Conditions in 6-8-Year-Old Romanian School Children.

ABSTRACT: Dental caries still have a high prevalence in Romania. The aim of this paper is to determine the prevalence of caries in children (aged 6 to 8 years) correlated with individual-level predictors and socio-economic variables. A stratified, randomized nationally representative sample was established, taking into consideration the total number of preschool children and based on administrative units and residence. Self-assessment was performed by means of the Oral Health Questionnaire for Children (WHO). Examinations were conducted by 10 standardized examiners, with International Caries Detection and Assessment System (ICDAS) caries codes higher than 3 considered as dentinal caries, missing teeth as MT, and restorations as FT. DMFT and SiC indexes were calculated accordingly. The

SUBMITTER: Dumitrescu R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9222191 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature