[Dental caries prevalence in youth from the Hague. Have the differences in dental health between social groups closed?].
In 1998 a dental survey amongst 6- and 12-year-old schoolchildren in the Hague was carried out. The 1998-survey showed differences in caries experience between SES groups that had increased in the period 1989-1998. The decline in caries experience among 6-year-old children of low SES groups had come to an end after 1983, whereas among 12-year-old children the decrease in mean DMFS values had stopped in the early nineties. However, the survey showed that during 1989-1998, the percentages of caries-free children in medium and high SES groups continued to rise. Of the medium SES 6- and 12-year-old children, In 1998, the percentage of caries-free 6- and 12-year-old children in medium SES group were 79 and 87, respectively. The comparable results in the high SES group were 87 (6-yr-olds) and 93 (12-yr-olds).
Truin
G J
GJ
Afdeling Preventieve, Sociale Tandheelkunde en Pedodontologie, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, Postbus 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen.
König
K G
KG
van Rijkom
H
H
Frencken
J E
JE
Bronkhorst
E M
EM
Mulder
J
J
van 't Hof
M A
MA
D017677:Age Distribution; D002648:Child; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology; D003753:Dental Health Surveys; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009018:Morocco / Q000208:ethnology; D009426:Netherlands / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014421:Turkey / Q000208:ethnology
Cariësprevalentie bij de Haagse jeugd. Nemen de verschillen in de gebitsgezondheid tussen de milieus toe?