Fyffe H E, Deery C, Pitts N B
Dental Health Services Research Unit, Dental School, Dundee, Scotland.
Community Dent Health. 1996 Jun;13(2):76-80.
Contemporary dental literature contains many reports of the prevalence of developmental defects of enamel in a variety of populations. Little information is available relating to patients' perceptions of such defects. The aim of this study was to compare the prevalence of developmental defects of enamel in a sample of regularly attending adolescent dental patients with the patients' own views as to whether they thought they had marks on their teeth. The index used for the assessment of defects, the SCOTS Version of the Modified DDE Index (SCOTS/DDE Index), includes both a dentist and patient assessment of defects. Four hundred and eighty-five adolescent dental patients of 41 general dental practitioners in Scotland were examined under standardised conditions in a mobile dental surgery by one trained and calibrated examiner. Approximately half the sample had some sort of developmental defect of enamel, as classified by the SCOTS/DDE Index. However, only 14 per cent of the sample claimed to be aware of marks on their front teeth which would not brush off.
当代牙科文献中有许多关于不同人群中釉质发育缺陷患病率的报道。关于患者对这些缺陷的看法，可获取的信息很少。本研究的目的是比较定期就诊的青少年牙科患者样本中釉质发育缺陷的患病率，以及患者自己对于他们是否认为自己牙齿上有痕迹的看法。用于评估缺陷的指数，即改良的牙釉质发育不全指数的苏格兰版本（SCOTS/DDE指数），包括牙医和患者对缺陷的评估。在流动牙科诊所中，由一名经过培训和校准的检查者在标准化条件下对苏格兰41名普通牙科医生的485名青少年牙科患者进行了检查。根据SCOTS/DDE指数分类，大约一半的样本有某种釉质发育缺陷。然而，只有14%的样本声称意识到自己门牙上有擦不掉的痕迹。
