Mitropoulos C
Department of Dental Health, University of Dundee, Dental School, UK.
Community Dent Health. 1993 Sep;10 Suppl 2:9-18.
Professor Philip Holloway has an outstanding reputation in dental science which has led him to be asked to give his advice on dental matters in many different parts of the world. When he came to Manchester in 1964 he came to join the Department of Children's and Preventive Dentistry and the dental welfare of the children in the north west of England has remained one of his abiding central interests. This paper examines the information that has become available on the dental caries experience among children in north west England since the 1960s when Philip Holloway joined the department. The paper collates data on the dramatic reduction in caries prevalence and examines the distribution of dental caries in children today. In the 1990s, typically, only one quarter of children account for three quarters of the dental caries that is present. In the future, efforts should be concentrated on identifying groups of children within the population at risk to dental caries rather than trying to identify individuals. A recent reduction in the provision of restorative treatment amongst 5-year-old children is noted in this region of England and proposals for further research are discussed.
菲利普·霍洛威教授在牙科领域享有卓越声誉，这使他受邀在世界许多不同地方就牙科事务提供建议。1964年他来到曼彻斯特，加入了儿童与预防牙科系，英格兰西北部儿童的牙齿健康福利一直是他长期关注的核心问题之一。本文考察了自20世纪60年代菲利普·霍洛威加入该系以来，英格兰西北部儿童龋齿情况的现有信息。本文整理了龋齿患病率大幅下降的数据，并研究了如今儿童龋齿的分布情况。在20世纪90年代，通常只有四分之一的儿童患有四分之三的现有龋齿。未来，工作应集中在确定人群中易患龋齿的儿童群体，而不是试图找出个体。在英格兰的这个地区，最近注意到5岁儿童接受修复治疗的比例有所下降，并讨论了进一步研究的建议。
