Blinkhorn A S
Department of Oral Health and Development, University Dental Hospital of Manchester, UK.
Int Dent J. 1994 Aug;44(4 Suppl 1):439-43.
Caries reductions have occurred in the majority of industrialised nations but the impact of these changes in dental disease on oral health promotion activity is not clear. A pilot study recorded the views of members of the Oral Health Promotion Research Group on how they had modified their approach to the task of providing appropriate oral health promotion. Two thirds stated that the caries reductions were not evident in the populations they served and the remainder were able to target interventions more accurately following the decline in caries. This pilot study has highlighted the fact that caries reductions are not universal and the reasons why some groups in society have not achieved a 'dental health gain' requires further investigation.
大多数工业化国家的龋齿发病率都有所下降，但这些口腔疾病变化对口腔健康促进活动的影响尚不清楚。一项试点研究记录了口腔健康促进研究小组成员对于他们如何调整提供适当口腔健康促进任务的方法的看法。三分之二的人表示，他们所服务人群的龋齿发病率下降并不明显，其余的人则能够在龋齿发病率下降后更准确地确定干预目标。这项试点研究突出了一个事实，即龋齿发病率的下降并非普遍现象，社会上一些群体未能实现“牙齿健康改善”的原因需要进一步调查。
