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KMID : 1143420230160451523
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Public Health Weekly Report
2023 Volume.16 No. 45 p.1523 ~ p.1537
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Current Status and Associated Factors of Dental Caries in 12-year-old Children in Republic of Korea: Using the 2021?2022 Korea National Children’s Oral Health Survey
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Shin Hae-Eun
Kim Sun-Ja
Oh Kyung-Won
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Abstract
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This study aimed to examine the current status of dental caries in the permanent teeth of 12-year-old children in Republic of Korea (the proportion of children with an experience of dental caries and the prevalence) and determine the factors affecting dental caries, by utilizing the 2021?2022 Children’s Oral Health Survey data. The first-year students of 423 middle schools nationwide participated in the survey, and of those, the data from 10,031 boys and 8,640 girls (a total of 18,671 students) were analyzed in this study. A complex samples cross-tab analysis was performed to compare the dental caries experience and prevalence according to the subject characteristics, and a complex samples logistic regression analysis was performed to identify the factors affecting dental caries. The analyses conducted on the 2021?2022 Children’s Oral Health Survey data showed that the proportion of children with dental caries experience was 58.4% and the prevalence was 6.9%. Both the proportion of dental caries experience and its prevalence were higher in girls than in boys. Additionally, the level of the prevalence was associated with geography, subjective income level, history of dental caries preventive care, consumption of soft drinks inducing tooth decay, and subjective oral health status. Because teeth damaged with dental caries cannot be repaired, prevention is more important than treatment. In childhood and adolescence, it is necessary to perform oral hygiene practices in consideration of the factors inducing dental caries.
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KEYWORD
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Korea National Children’s Oral Health Survey, Dental caries, Adolescence
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