A survey of dental caries and its influencing factors in school-aged children of Xiamen city in 2005 and 20 1 5
LI Jun-zhen
CHEN Mei
LIU Yi-hua
Abstract：AIM:To investigate the prevalence of dental caries in school-aged children of Xiamen city in 2005 and 2015.METHODS:With stratified cluster random sampling method,2,334 urban and rural school-aged children in Xiamen from 2 schools were surveyed.Oral examination was conducted by the WHO recommended caries epidemiological investigation method.Dental caries,tooth loss,and tooth filling status were recorded.The results were entered by EpiData 3.0 and analyzed by SPASS 13.0.RESULTS:In 2005 the prevalence rate of dental caries was 73.31% and the mean DMFT/dmft was 2.69.In 2015,the number decreased to 52.65% and 1.67,respectively (P<0.05).There was no statistical difference between genders,between urban and rural school -aged children (P>0.05).CONCLUSION:The prevalence of dental caries of the school-aged children in Xiamen decreased sig-nificantly in 2015 as compared with that in 2005.
Keywords：school childrendental cariescomparasion
Publication Date：2016-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 677-678,693 )