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- Title
"The rise and fall" of dental caries: some global aspects of dental caries epidemiology.
- Authors
Helöe, Leif Arne; Haugejorden, Ola
- Abstract
The purpose of this paper was to review some global aspects of dental caries epidemiology. Existing data show that caries activity has increased, often rapidly, in developing countries in recent years while marked reductions have occurred in some industrialized countries during the last 10-15 years. Changes in the prevalence of a multifactorial disease like dental caries are difficult to explain but the obvious ones seem to coincide either with increased intake of refined sugar-containing products or with increased use of fluorides. Furthermore it would appear that restorative treatment alone has little impact on caries activity when viewed in a life long perspective. Experience, the existing geographic distribution of oral health problems and resources to cope with them suggest an urgent need for co-operation in dental education and research between developing and industrialized countries to develop acceptable cost-effective preventive programs in countries where caries activity is high or increasing rapidly.
- Subjects
DENTAL caries; DENTAL pathology; DENTAL care; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ORAL hygiene; DENTISTRY
- Publication
Community Dentistry & Oral Epidemiology, 1981, Vol 9, Issue 6, p294
- ISSN
0301-5661
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1600-0528.1981.tb00350.x