Open AccessCaries experience in the primary dentition and presence of plaque in 7-year-old Chinese children: A 4-year time-lag study
Author(s) -
Xuan Hu,
Mingwen Fan,
J. Mulder,
J.E.F.M. Frencken
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of international society of preventive and community dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.476
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2250-1002
pISSN - 2231-0762
DOI - 10.4103/2231-0762.159958
Subject(s) - medicine , dentistry , logistic regression , dentition , analysis of variance , permanent dentition , confidence interval , demography , sociology
The aim of the present study was to test the hypothesis that dental caries prevalence and caries experience in primary dentitions has increased over 4 years and to compare the presence of plaque on permanent teeth in child cohorts over 4 years.