Karunakaran Ramachandran, Somasundaram Sujatha, Gawthaman Murugesan, Vinodh Selvaraj, Manikandan Sundaram, Gokulnathan Subramanian
Department of Pedodontics, Vivekananda Dental College for Women, Thiruchengode, Namakkal, Tamil Nadu, India.
Department of Pedodontics, Saveetha Dental College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
J Pharm Bioallied Sci. 2014 Jul;6(Suppl 1):S160-1. doi: 10.4103/0975-7406.137432.
The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of dental caries in primary teeth among 4-6 years old school going children in the Namakkal District.
The study covered a total of 850 school going children in a total of 26 schools in the Namakkal district of Tamil Nadu. The age group selected for this study ranged from 4 to 6 years of age. Each child was examined in their respective schools by one of the four calibrated examiners and decay, missing and filled teeth (dmft) index was recorded along with demographic details. This study was done in September-October 2013 in a span of 1 month duration.
Of 850 children examined, 560 (65.88%) children had dental caries. Mean dmft score was 2.86. Prevalence of dental caries was higher in boys (69.6%) than in girls (61.5%). The untreated decay teeth accounted for 92.4%.
The prevalence of dental caries among 4-6 years old children is high in the Namakkal district. The need for the creation of dental awareness among children and their primary caregivers is crucial and the need for developing immediate oral health promotion strategies including an increase in school dental health programs is recommended.
本研究旨在确定泰米尔纳德邦纳马卡尔区4至6岁学龄儿童乳牙龋齿的患病率。
该研究涵盖了泰米尔纳德邦纳马卡尔区26所学校的850名学龄儿童。本研究选取的年龄组为4至6岁。由四名经过校准的检查人员之一在各自学校对每个儿童进行检查，并记录龋齿、缺失牙和补牙（dmft）指数以及人口统计学细节。本研究于2013年9月至10月进行，为期1个月。
在接受检查的850名儿童中，560名（65.88%）儿童患有龋齿。平均dmft评分为2.86。男孩的龋齿患病率（69.6%）高于女孩（61.5%）。未治疗的龋齿占92.4%。
纳马卡尔区4至6岁儿童的龋齿患病率较高。在儿童及其主要照顾者中提高口腔保健意识至关重要，建议制定即时的口腔健康促进策略，包括增加学校口腔健康项目。
