Thomson W M
Public Health Unit, Manawatu-Wanganui Area Health Board, Palmerston North.
N Z Dent J. 1993 Jan;89(395):12-4.
Dental caries data on 3,283 5-year-old children, taken at the completion of their first treatment in the School Dental Service as new school entrants, showed that non-Maori children were three times more likely than Maori children to have no experience of caries. Maori children were three times more likely to have high (five or more missing or filled teeth) caries experience than non-Maori children. Caries experience in Pacific Island children lay between the Maori and non-Maori children. Maori children were almost three times more likely to have had general anaesthesia for dental treatment than were non-Maori. From records of 3,329 Form II (aged 12 or 13) children taken at the conclusion of their last treatment in the School Dental Service, non-Maori children were found to be twice as likely than Maori to have had no experience of caries. Maori children were over twice as likely to have had high (five or more missing or filled permanent teeth) caries experience than non-Maori. It is unlikely that the dental health outcome differences between Maori and non-Maori children will be reduced by the current dental health care system unless dental health promotion becomes more effective and culturally appropriate.
对3283名5岁儿童进行的龋齿数据调查显示，这些儿童作为新入学学生在学校牙科服务机构完成首次治疗时，非毛利儿童无龋齿经历的可能性是毛利儿童的三倍。毛利儿童有高龋齿经历（五颗或更多颗牙齿缺失或补牙）的可能性是非毛利儿童的三倍。太平洋岛民儿童的龋齿经历情况介于毛利儿童和非毛利儿童之间。毛利儿童因牙科治疗接受全身麻醉的可能性几乎是非毛利儿童的三倍。从学校牙科服务机构对3329名中二学生（12或13岁）的最后一次治疗记录来看，发现非毛利儿童无龋齿经历的可能性是毛利儿童的两倍。毛利儿童有高龋齿经历（五颗或更多颗恒牙缺失或补牙）的可能性是非毛利儿童的两倍多。除非口腔健康促进变得更有效且更符合文化特点，否则当前的口腔医疗保健系统不太可能缩小毛利儿童和非毛利儿童在口腔健康结果上的差异。
