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KMID : 0358920140410010008
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Journal of the Korean Academy of Pedodontics
2014 Volume.41 No. 1 p.8 ~ p.17
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Dental Caries Status of 14-16 Year Old Adolescents in Yangsan Area
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Kwon Bo-Min
Bae Ik-Hyun
Kim Shin
Kim Ji-Yeon
Jeong Sung-Hee
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Abstract
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Although adolescents usually show peculiar aspects in oral health status, there have been not so many studies about it, while there have been innumerable studies for children. This study aimed at evaluating the prevalence of dental caries of adolescents in Yangsan in Republic of Korea, detecting its contributing factors, and distinguishing the high-risk group by epidemiological mass survey. Besides, the significance including early caries lesion in diagnosis criteria was assessed with minimal invasive concept. This survey was performed on 1,371 adolescents aged 14 to 16 in Yangsan as subject examinees by a single trained examiner. The dental caries status was checked by oral examination at schools and questionnaire survey was accompanied for some relevant risk factors. The data were analyzed to yield the results as follows: Regarding the caries experience, the DMFT score by WHO criteria with ECL including or not was 4.79 and 3.97 respectively. In both the criteria, female showed higher values and that of high-risk group was almost twice compared with whole examinees by Sic Index. About pit & fissure sealed rate, it revealed the tendency that the more sealed teeth, the lower DMFT values. Among the studied risk factors, only the habit of brushing before going to bed showed positive relationship (p < 0.05).
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KEYWORD
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Adolescents, Dental caries experience, Early caries lesion, High-risk group, Risk factors
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