Open AccessCaries prevalence of school-going boys and girls according to cleaning methods and soft drink-taking frequency in different localities, in and around Guwahati City
Author(s) -
Chandana Kalita,
Bapukan Choudhary,
Anup Saikia,
Pratap Chandra Sarma
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of the indian society of pedodontics and preventive dentistry/journal of indian society of pedodontics and preventive dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.378
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1998-3905
pISSN - 0970-4388
DOI - 10.4103/0970-4388.186755
Subject(s) - medicine , environmental health , rural area , population , cross sectional study , oral health , dentistry , odds ratio , rural population , odds , demography , geography , socioeconomics , logistic regression , pathology , sociology
Dental caries is a multifactorial disease, causes of which are mostly understood nowadays. This disease is not only treatable but also preventable, if detected in its initial stage. In a developing country like India, facility of dental treatment is available mostly for urban population, whereas a very common approach of dental disease treatment is still traditional for the rural people.