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dc.title | Declining prevalence of dental caries in school children in Singapore | |
dc.contributor.author | Lo, G.L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Bagramian, R.A. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-10-16T05:36:35Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-10-16T05:36:35Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1997 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Lo, G.L.,Bagramian, R.A. (1997). Declining prevalence of dental caries in school children in Singapore. Oral Diseases 3 (2) : 121-125. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1354523X | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/46702 | |
dc.description.abstract | OBJECTIVE: Dental health surveys of school children in Singapore from past decades were reviewed to document reductions in prevalence of dental caries. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Surveys were carried out in schools by the Dental Division, Ministry of Health in 1970, 1979, 1984, 1989 and 1994. A sample size of approximately 5000 school children representing 1.2% of the school population aged 6 to 18 years old was examined in each survey. RESULTS: Survey data showed an increase in the proportion of children free of caries in the permanent dentition from 30% in 1970 to 58.7% in 1994. The DMFT index for 6 to 18 year old children has dropped from 2.98 in 1970, 2.61 in 1979, 1.97 in 1984, 1.61 in 1989 to 1.05 in 1994. CONCLUSION: Fluoridation of public water supplies together with the adoption of preventive dental health programmes by the State and professional bodies is credited as the major factor in caries reduction. | |
dc.source | Scopus | |
dc.subject | Caries prevalence | |
dc.subject | Fluoridation | |
dc.subject | Prevention | |
dc.subject | School children | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.contributor.department | PREVENTIVE DENTISTRY | |
dc.description.sourcetitle | Oral Diseases | |
dc.description.volume | 3 | |
dc.description.issue | 2 | |
dc.description.page | 121-125 | |
dc.description.coden | ORDIF | |
dc.identifier.isiut | NOT_IN_WOS | |
Appears in Collections: | Staff Publications |
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