title: Dental caries prevalence in 5-year-old children in Barnsley Area, England.
abstract: It is important that baseline studies of dental caries prevalence are available prior to the introduction of community water fluoridation. This survey was carried out during the winter of 1975/76 in the low-fluoride Barnsley Area (F= 0.1 parts/10(6)). Caries prevalence is in accord with that of other low-fluoride areas. The mean dmf was 4.5. For the group of children with rampant dental caries, the mean dmf value was much greater (11.3).
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D004245:DMF Index; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male