Obezite vücuda alınan enerjiyle harcanan enerji arasındaki dengesizlikten kaynaklanan morbidite ve mortalite oranını önemli ölçüde arttırtan kronik bir hastalıktır. prevalansı dünyada olduğu gibi ülkemizde de hızla artmaktadır. kardiyovasküler hastalıklar, diyabet, hipertansiyon, kanserler dizi hastalıkla ilişkili olup; orta derecede kilo kaybı ile komorbiditeleri azalmaktadır. aynı zamanda çür...

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...

The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of black stains (BS) and factors associated with their occurrence and to investigate the association of BS with caries experience after adjusting for other risk indicators. A school-based, cross-sectional study using multistage sampling of children aged 10-12 years from 20 private and public schools in Pelotas/Southern Brazil was conducted (n =...

This study assessed the feelings and attitudes of children toward their dentists and their association with oral health. Methods. A questionnaire designed to evaluate the attitudes of children toward dentists and preferences was completed by 200 children and their families. In addition, the children were examined and the World Health Organization (WHO) method was used to obtain dmft and DMFT sc...

AIM The main purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence and distribution of decayed, missing, and filled teeth (DMFT) and enamel hypoplasia in 12-year old students in junior high school in Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS This descriptive study was carried out in 2001 on 1,223 12-year old students, which were randomly selected in Yazd and Hadi-Shahr, Iran. A questionnaire was designed to r...

The aim of this study was to compare the prevalence of caries in 7-12-year-old children from Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil, in 1989 and 1995. Systematic random samples were drawn from the population of children enrolled in public schools. The surveys were carried out by trained examiners using the DMFT index and WHO diagnostic criteria. There was an increase in the percentage of children free o...

BACKGROUND Even though it has been widely studied, early childhood caries (ECC) remains a serious public health problem, especially in countries where there is no national program of oral health assessment and no genuine primary oral health care, such as in Kosovo. The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence of ECC and analyze caries risk factors. METHODS The subjects were 1,008 pr...

BACKGROUND To evaluate oral health in postmenopausal women and verify whether there is a correlation between tooth loss according to index of decayed, missing, filled teeth (DMFT) and bone mineral density (BMD). METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted with 100 women. The DMFT and its associations with lumbar and femoral BMD (T-score and g/cm) were assessed. Analysis of covariance and mu...