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- Title
PREVALENCE OF DENTAL CARIES AMONG STUDENTS OF KHAIRPUR DISTRICT.
- Authors
SHAIKH, IRFAN AHMED; KALHORO, FEROZE ALI; PIRZADO, MUHAMMAD SULLEMAN; MEMON, ABDUL BARI; SAHITO, MOHAMMAD AMIN; DAHRI, WAHEED MURAD; MALHI, PERMANAND
- Abstract
A cross sectional study was done to investigate the prevalence of dental caries and calculate the DMFT score among (primary to higher secondary) school children of District Khairpur. The sample size was 384 children from both male and female from public and private sector schools. Oral examination was carried out using mouth mirror and a blunt ball-ended probe .No radiographs were taken. The results showed that there were 51% boys and 49% girls. The prevalence of dental caries was 14 %.The mean DMFT score was 0.30. It is concluded that mean DMFT for boys and girls was 0.26 and 0.34 respectively. The children from government and private schools were affected by caries 13.7% and 14.4% respectively.
- Subjects
KHAIRPUR (Pakistan); SCHOOL children; MEDICAL research; DENTAL pathology; DENTITION
- Publication
Pakistan Oral & Dental Journal, 2014, Vol 34, Issue 4, p680
- ISSN
1012-8700
- Publication type
Article