Unur Meral, Bektas Kayhan Kıvanc, Altop Muzeyyen Seda, Boy Metin Zeynep, Keskin Yaren
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, İstanbul University, Turkey.
J Istanb Univ Fac Dent. 2015 Oct 21;49(3):29-38. doi: 10.17096/jiufd.03460. eCollection 2015.
Studies regarding oral health are mainly conducted on adult population and there is a lack of epidemiologic data on the oral health of children. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and distribution of oral lesions in Turkish children.
A cross-sectional survey was carried out on total of 1041 Turkish children attended by the outpatient Oral Medicine and Surgery Department of İstanbul University.
Examinations were performed and 277 of whom had a total of more than 30 different type of lesions detected. The fissured tongue (3.4%) was the most frequent lesion, followed by traumatic lesions (3.2%) and the cheek biting (2.5%).
This is the first study in Turkey on oral lesions in this age group. We hope that our study will be a baseline data for future studies and for sure there is a need for more goodquality epidemiological studies in this area.
关于口腔健康的研究主要针对成年人群开展,缺乏儿童口腔健康的流行病学数据。本研究的目的是评估土耳其儿童口腔病变的患病率及分布情况。
对伊斯坦布尔大学口腔内科和外科门诊就诊的1041名土耳其儿童进行了横断面调查。
进行了检查,其中277名儿童共检测出30多种不同类型的病变。裂纹舌(3.4%)是最常见的病变,其次是创伤性病变(3.2%)和咬颊(2.5%)。
这是土耳其针对该年龄组口腔病变的首次研究。我们希望我们的研究将成为未来研究的基线数据,并且该领域肯定需要更多高质量的流行病学研究。