Berg-Beckhoff Gabriele, Kutschmann Marcus, Bardehle Doris
Faculty of Public Health, Dept Epidemiology & International Public Health, University of Bielefeld, POB 10 01 31, 33 501, Bielefeld, Germany.
Clin Oral Investig. 2008 Mar;12 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):S51-8. doi: 10.1007/s00784-007-0178-0. Epub 2008 Jan 29.
Within the context of preventing non-communicable diseases, the World Health Report (2002) and the WHO Global Oral Health Program (2003) put forward a new strategy of disease prevention and health promotion. Greater emphasis is placed on developing global policies in oral health promotion and oral disease prevention. The Decayed, Missing, Filled Teeth (DMFT) index does not meet new challenges in the field of oral health. Dental erosion seems to be a growing problem, and in some countries, an increase in erosion of teeth is associated with an increase in the consumption of beverages containing acids. Therefore, within a revision of the WHO Oral Health Surveys Basic Methods, new oral disease patterns, e.g. dental erosion, have to be taken into account. Within the last 20 years, many studies on dental erosion have been carried out and published. There has been a rapid growth in the number of indexes quantifying dental erosion process in different age groups. However, these indexes are not comparable. This article discusses quality criteria which an index intended for assessing tooth erosion should possess.
在预防非传染性疾病的背景下，《世界卫生报告》（2002年）和世卫组织全球口腔健康规划（2003年）提出了疾病预防和健康促进的新战略。更加重视制定全球口腔健康促进和口腔疾病预防政策。龋失补牙（DMFT）指数无法应对口腔健康领域的新挑战。牙齿侵蚀似乎是一个日益严重的问题，在一些国家，牙齿侵蚀的增加与含酸饮料消费量的增加有关。因此，在修订《世卫组织口腔健康调查基本方法》时，必须考虑到新的口腔疾病模式，如牙齿侵蚀。在过去20年里，已经开展并发表了许多关于牙齿侵蚀的研究。量化不同年龄组牙齿侵蚀过程的指数数量迅速增长。然而，这些指数不可比。本文讨论了用于评估牙齿侵蚀的指数应具备的质量标准。
