Dental treatment in the primary dentition of 7-12 year-old Swedish schoolchildren.
In most Swedish counties, epidemiological data on the permanent dentition are collected on all patients aged 7-19 years. For the primary dentition, epidemiological data are only reported for the 3-6-year-old age groups. The purpose of the present study was to investigate what treatments had been made in the primary dentition during the period when the children were 7 to 12 years old. The sample size constituted 10% of all children born in 1987 and regularly treated at Public Dental Service clinics in Jönköping County between 7 and 12 years of age. Data were extracted from the dental records. The most common treatments--new restorations and replacements of restorations--comprised 72% of all treatment. Replacements of restorations constituted 31% of all restorations performed between 7 and 12 years of age, and a majority (81%) of these had been made when the children were 7-9 years old. The mean defs value at 6 years of age was 1.9. The mean number of treatments performed per child between 7 and 12 years of age was 2.5. The result of the present study indicates that more treatments in the primary dentition are performed after 6 years of age than before.
Alm
Anita
A
Department of Paediatric Dentistry, Institute for Postgraduate Dental Education, Jönköping, Sweden. anita.alm@vgregion.se
Wendt
Lill-Kari
LK
Koch
Göran
G
D002648:Child; D004245:DMF Index; D019140:Dental Care for Children / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy; D003793:Dental Restoration, Permanent / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D015995:Prevalence; D019233:Retreatment; D012494:Sampling Studies; D013548:Sweden / Q000453:epidemiology; D014081:Tooth Extraction / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014094:Tooth, Deciduous