Changes in Dental Caries 1953–2003

Changes in dental caries 1953-2003.

In the first half of the 20th century, indices and methods of conducting surveys of the level of dental diseases were developed. Modern epidemiological studies began in the fifties and many reliable studies have been conducted after 1960. In the following decades, a substantial decline of caries prevalence was documented in the majority of the highly industrialized countries, with reductions of...

Dental caries.

Dental caries.

Dental caries is one of the most prevalent diseases afflicting mankind. It reached a peak in the 1950s but has been declining drastically in recent years in children and young adults. This article describes the three contributing factors in dental caries: microbial plaque, tooth susceptibility, and diet, and discusses practical preventive measures which help to reduce caries incidence. Some of ...

Ethnomedicine: use in dental caries

Correspondence to: Salil Budhiraja Shiksha kunj public school, Chinnot colony, Rohtak, 124001, Haryana, India. E-mail: [email protected] Abstract Ubiquitousness and increasing prevalence of dental caries makes it one of the most important problems in public health. Due to high cost and lack of resources at primary levels prevention is better in dental caries. Since the origin is related t...

Sibling similarities in dental caries.

Although dental caries experience clearly follows family line, information on sibling resemblance in the DMFT is surprisingly scarce. The most extensive sibling comparisons involve a limited number of boys and girls analyzed with respect to parental DMFT (RINGELBERG, MATONSKI, and KIMBALL, J Public Health Dent 34: 174180, 1974). In the present study, we have examined DMFT data from the Ten-Stat...