Dental caries experience and treatment needs of green marble mine laborers in Udaipur district, Rajasthan, India | Zendy

Prabu Duraiswamy | Zendy; T Santhosh Kumar | Zendy; Rushabh Dagli | Zendy; Chandrakant Lodhi | Zendy; Suhas Kulkarni | Zendy

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Dental caries experience and treatment needs of green marble mine laborers in Udaipur district, Rajasthan, India

Author(s) -

Prabu Duraiswamy,

T Santhosh Kumar,

Rushabh Dagli,

Chandrakant Lodhi,

Suhas Kulkarni

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

indian journal of dental research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.277

H-Index - 43

eISSN - 1998-3603

pISSN - 0970-9290

DOI - 10.4103/0970-9290.44537

Subject(s) - medicine , dentistry , socioeconomic status , population , demography , environmental health , sociology

The study was undertaken at Kesariyaji, located in Udaipur district of Rajasthan. There are about 3 million workers who marble mine at Rajasthan. Living conditions of these workers are substandard and most of them are immigrant workers living in tiny shacks. Majority of them belong to lower socioeconomic status with poor educational background. The present study was carried out to estimate dental caries prevalence and treatment needs of laborers working in the green marble mines of Udaipur district.

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