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Dental caries status of Chinese children in Johannesburg, South Africa
Author(s) -
McInnes P. M.,
Vieira E.
Publication year - 1979
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.1600-0528.1979.tb01209.x
Subject(s) - medicine , dentition , dentistry , demography , dental health , sociology
The purpose of this study was to determine the dental health status of a representative sample of Johannesburg Chinese schoolchildren, all 250 attending the only Chinese school in the city. In 18 preschoolchildren, 3‐5 years old, 16.7 % were caries‐free mean, dmft was 7.1 ± 5.8 and labial caries was present in 33.3 % In 165 primary schoolchildren aged 5‐16 years, the mean DMFT was 5.0 ± 3.2 with 20 % of the primary dentition caries‐free and the mean DMFT was 2.4 ± 1.9. 4.8 % of the primary schoolchildren were caries‐free. In 67 high school pupils of 11–17 years, 4.5 % were caries‐free and the mean DMFT score was 7.1 ± 3.9. Caries prevalences among the Chinese were similar to corresponding groups of children of Chinese immigrants in the United Kingdom and Malaysia.