Taqi Muhammad, Razak Ishak Abdul, Ab-Murat Norintan
Department of Community Oral Health and Clinical Prevention, University of Malaya, Malaysia.
J Pak Med Assoc. 2019 Jul;69(7):950-954.
To assess and compare the dental caries status among children using two methods..
The cross-sectional study was conducted in October-November 2017 at five government and two private schools in Bhakkar, Punjab, Pakistan. It comprised children aged 11-12 years. World Health Organisation standards and the modified International Caries Detection and Assessment Systems methods were used were used to determine the dental caries status of each subject. Results of the two methods were compared at all cut- offs where appropriate, using SPSS 17.
Of the 183 subjects, 101(55.2%) were boys. Those aged 12 years were 112(61.2%) while 71(38.8%) were aged 11 years. There was no statistically significant difference in values of the Decayed Missing and Filled Surface / Decayed Missing and Filled Teeth index as well as the prevalence of dental caries between two methods (p>0.05 each). Intra-examiner reproducibility was higher with the World Health Organisation method compared to the other index used (p<0.05).
Modified International Caries Detection and Assessment Systems method can be used in epidemiological surveys as it was found to provide results similar to the World Health Organisation criteria at cut-off point 2.
采用两种方法评估和比较儿童的龋齿状况。
2017年10月至11月在巴基斯坦旁遮普省巴卡尔的五所政府学校和两所私立学校开展了这项横断面研究。研究对象为11至12岁的儿童。采用世界卫生组织标准和改良的国际龋齿检测与评估系统方法来确定每个研究对象的龋齿状况。在适当的所有临界点，使用SPSS 17对两种方法的结果进行比较。
在183名研究对象中，101名（55.2%）为男孩。12岁的有112名（61.2%），11岁的有71名（38.8%）。两种方法在龋失补牙面/龋失补牙指数值以及龋齿患病率方面均无统计学显著差异（各p>0.05）。与使用的其他指数相比，世界卫生组织方法的检查者内部重复性更高（p<0.05）。
改良的国际龋齿检测与评估系统方法可用于流行病学调查，因为发现在临界点2时其提供的结果与世界卫生组织标准相似。
