Caries status and caries risk assessment of migrant workers' children in Chengdu
REN Hui-di
SHAO Rui
LI Xuan
YANG Ren-li
ZHONG Yi-si
ZHOU Jing
Abstract：AIM:To Investigate the dental caries status and its influencing factors in migrant workers' children and to assess the caries risk.METHODS:One primary school which recruit migrant workers' children were selected with random sampling in Chengdu,all of the children in grade one (including 72 migrant workers' children,and 54 non-migrant worker's children) were included in this study.The data was collected from every child by clinical examination,salivary sampling,a structured questionnaire and caries risk assessment were taken by Cariogram software.RESULTS:The prevalence of primary tooth caries of migrant and non-migrant workers' children was 76.3％ and that and 81.5％ respectively(P ＞ 0.05).Moreover,the prevalence of the young permanent tooth of migrant and non-migrant workers' children was 15.3％ and 5.6％ respectively (P ＞ 0.05).According to the Cariogram results,there were 8.33％ of the children with high caries risk and 12.5％ of the children with low caries risk in migrant workers' children group,whereas 16.67％ of the children with high caries risk and 16.67％ with low caries risk in non-migrant workers' group(P ＞ 0.05).CONCLUSION:Systematic community-based oral health promotion should be strengthened and preventive-oriented oral health care systems are needed,including promotion of further self-care practices.
Keywords：dental cariesmigrant workers' childrencaries risk assessment
Publication Date：2017-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 588-592 )