Dental caries in rural and urban black preschoolchildren
- 1 June 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology
- Vol. 6 (3) , 135-138
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0528.1978.tb01137.x
Abstract
The dentitions of 439 rural and 192 urban black children aged 1-5 yr were examined with mirror and probe. Dental caries was common and the percentage prevalence and dmft [decayed-missing-filled teeth] values were similar in children of 1-3 yr in both groups. At 4 yr there was a 2-fold increase in dental caries in the urban children to reach a dmft score significantly greater than that in the rural children (P < 0.01). Labial caries was common in rural children but rare in urban children while rampant caries (dmft .gtoreq. 5) exhibited the opposite pattern.Keywords
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