[Caries prevalence among 5-year-olds in the city of Winterthur in the year 2001].
The aim of the present study was to assess the caries prevalence of 5-year-olds in the city of Winterthur in 2001. By simple random sampling 350 children were selected. Two-hundred-and-ninety-one of the children (83%) participated. The mean dmft-value was 2.42; of that 1.87 were untreated carious teeth (dt). Forty-five per cent of the children showed caries in the deciduous dentition. Twenty-one per cent of the children had high caries experience (5 or more dmft). Twenty-one per cent showed caries in deciduous incisors. In 4% of the children primary molars were missing. Splitting by nationality revealed great differences. On average, the Swiss children had 1.70 dmf-teeth; the ex-Yugoslavian and Albanian children had 7.84 dmf-teeth. Fifteen percent of the Swiss children had high caries experience; in contrast 65% of the ex-Yugoslavian and Albanian children had high caries experience.
Menghini
Giorgio
G
Station für Orale Epidemiologie, Klinik für Präventivzahn-medizin, Parodontologie und Kariologie, Zentrum für Zahn-, Mund- und Kieferheilkunde, Universität Zürich, Plattenstrasse 11 Postfach, 8028 Zürich. menghini@zzmk.unizh.ch
Steiner
Marcel
M
Leisebach
Teresa
T
Weber
Rahel
R
D000415:Albania / Q000208:ethnology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004245:DMF Index; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D015995:Prevalence; D013557:Switzerland / Q000453:epidemiology; D014094:Tooth, Deciduous; D014505:Urban Population; D015022:Yugoslavia / Q000208:ethnology