Tonpe Mayura, Patil Raju Umaji, Kadam Anagha, Bayad Payal, Shetty Vittaldas, Vinay Vineet
Department of Public Health Dentistry, STES Sinhgad Dental College and Hospital, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, STES Sinhgad Dental College and Hospital, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
Dent Res J (Isfahan). 2019 Jul-Aug;16(4):221-224.
The early diagnosis of dental caries is very crucial to prevent tooth loss, which leads to serious consequences in preschool children. The aim of this study is to compare the diagnostic outcome by the World Health Organization (WHO) and WHO and early carious lesions (ECLs) (i.e., WHO + ECL) criteria for assessing early childhood caries (ECC) in preschool children.
A cross-sectional, comparative study was conducted among 3-5 year old children ( = 358). Clinical examination was conducted using WHO and WHO + ECL criteria. The data were assessed using paired "" test. < 0.05 was considered as statistically significant.
There was statistically significant difference between the mean decayed, missing, or filled teeth recorded by the WHO + ECL and WHO ( < 0.05) method.
It was concluded that WHO + ECL criteria were significant and more precise in assessing the presence of ECL in preschool children.
龋齿的早期诊断对于预防牙齿脱落至关重要,牙齿脱落会给学龄前儿童带来严重后果。本研究的目的是比较世界卫生组织(WHO)标准与WHO和早期龋损(ECL)(即WHO + ECL)标准对学龄前儿童乳牙龋病(ECC)的诊断结果。
对358名3至5岁儿童进行了一项横断面比较研究。采用WHO和WHO + ECL标准进行临床检查。使用配对“”检验对数据进行评估。P < 0.05被认为具有统计学意义。
WHO + ECL和WHO方法记录的平均龋失补牙数之间存在统计学显著差异(P < 0.05)。
得出的结论是,WHO + ECL标准在评估学龄前儿童ECL的存在方面具有显著意义且更为精确。