Prevalence of dental caries in permanent teeth of white and black schoolchildren in Brazil.
The authors studied the prevalence of dental caries in white and black schoolchildren of Piracicaba, State of São Paulo, Brazil. The Student t-test, applied to the coefficient of prevalence of caries, revealed means significantly greater at the 5% level in whites than in blacks in the following groups: 7 years, both sexes; 8 years, both sexes; 9 years, males; 10 years, both sexes; 11 years, males.
D001938:Brazil; D002648:Child; D004245:DMF Index; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D044469:Racial Groups