title: Rampant dental caries in Papua New Guinean children.
abstract: The main etiological factors and the pattern of distribution of rampant caries in a sample of children in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (PNG) are presented. Inadequate oral hygiene and prolonged breast or bottle feeding at will were found to be main causative factors. The study sample showed many decayed teeth with pulpal involvement making the treatment procedures more complicated.
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authors.lastname: Amaratunge
mesh_terms: D001903:Bottle Feeding; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009910:Oral Hygiene; D010219:Papua New Guinea / Q000453:epidemiology