title: [Trends in the prevalence of caries in Dutch children].
abstract: Have there been changes in the trend of caries experience among Dutch children in the late 1990s? To answer this question a meta-analysis was carried out on epidemiological data collected in 5-, 6-, 11- and 12-year-old children living in the Netherlands between 1980 and 1999. From results of the present analysis it appears that after the mid 1980s a halt in the decline of caries experience among 5- and 6-year-olds occurred whereas among 11- and 12-year-olds, the earlier decrease in mean DMFS-scores stopped in the mid nineties. No significant trend in the caries experience among children of Turkish or Moroccan origin was found.
authors.affiliation: Afdeling Preventieve en Sociale Tandheelkunde en Pedodontologie, Universitair Medisch Centrum Sint Radboud, Nijmegen.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Boelens
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Delahaye
authors.forename: G J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Truin
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: van 't Hof
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009018:Morocco / Q000208:ethnology; D009426:Netherlands / Q000453:epidemiology; D010377:Pediatric Dentistry / Q000639:trends*; D015995:Prevalence; D014421:Turkey / Q000208:ethnology