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Dental caries in rural and urban black preschoolchildren
Author(s) -
CleatonJones P.,
Richardson B. D.,
Rantsho J. M.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
community dentistry and oral epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.061
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1600-0528
pISSN - 0301-5661
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0528.1978.tb01137.x
Subject(s) - medicine , dentistry
The dentitions of 439 rural and 192 urban black children aged 1–5 years were examined with mirror and probe. Denial caries was common and the percentage prevalence and dmft values were similar in children of 1–3 years in both groups. At 4 years of age there was a twofold increase in dental caries in the urban children to reach a dm ft score significantly greater than that in the rural children ( P <0.01). Labial caries was common in rural children but rare in urban children while rampant caries (dmft ≥5) exhibited the opposite pattern.