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Volume 7 Issue 5 (May, 2019)

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Assessment of prevalence of dental caries among school going children in a known population
Mandip Kaur, Surabhi Pathak, Gaurav Puri

Background: Dental caries are most common among the spectrum of oral diseases and are still a major public health burden in developing countries, affecting 60%-90% of school children and a number of adults. Hence; the present study was undertaken for assessing the prevalence of dental caries among school going children in a known population. Materials & methods: A total of 325 school going children were enrolled in the present study. Complete demographic details of all the patients were obtained. A self-framed questionnaire was made and was given to parents/guardians of all the subjects for obtaining the detailed medical, clinical and demographic data. Mouth mirror, explorer and probe were used for doing clinical oral examination of all the children. Presence of any catch or caries lesion was recorded separately. All the examination procedures were carried out under the hands of skilled and experienced dental surgeons. All the results were recorded in Microsoft excel sheet and were analyzed by SPSS software. Results: Among these subjects, dental caries was found to be present in 131 children. Therefore; the overall prevalence of dental caries was found to be 40.31%. Majority of these children belonged to the age group of 9 to 12 years. 13.54 percent of the children with dental caries belonged to the age group of 12 to 15 years. Out of 131 patients with dental caries, 78 patients were males while the remaining 53 patients were females. Conclusion: School going children are accompanied by presence of significant proportion of caries lesions. Key words: Prevalence, Dental caries, School going

 
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