[The influence of dental health examination in primary school on caries situation].
The purpose of the present epidemiological study was to clarify the influence of regular dental health examination practiced as school dental health care on the caries situation. The data analyzed were the result of dental examinations for 272 1st year pupils attending a junior high school which was attached to a private educational institution with pupils and students ranging from the kindergarten to university level. The institution is conducting regular dental health examination for all but the primary school. We analyzed the differences in the situation of caries between pupils who had graduated from the primary school which was attached to the institution and pupils from other primary schools. The former group was composed of the pupils who had not received regular dental health examination in primary school and the latter was composed of the pupils who had received it. Then, including the factor of the dental health care in kindergarten, we obtained the following results. 1) No significant difference in caries prevalence was found between the pupils who had not received regular dental health examination in primary school and the pupils who had received it, among male and female pupils respectively. 2) Both male and female pupils who had received regular dental health examination revealed a significantly higher rate of filling than pupils who had not received it. 3) Concerning pupils who had not received regular dental health examinations, the caries prevalence only among male pupils who had graduated from kindergarten attached to the institution was higher than that of the pupils from other kindergartens.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D012571:School Dentistry; D012737:Sex Factors