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- Title
Oral health status of Dutch Armed Forces recruits in the years 2000, 2010 and 2020, a retrospective repeated cross-sectional study.
- Authors
de la Court, A. J.; Opdam, N. J. M.; Bronkhorst, E. M.; Laske, M.; Huysmans, M. C. D. N. J. M.
- Abstract
Background: Studies on oral health status of adults are sparse and rarely include data on endodontic treatment and trauma. In the military, those data are available because recruits are routinely assessed with a clinical and radiological examination at the start of their career. This study aimed to identify differences in oral health status of Dutch Armed Forces recruits between cohorts, departments, sex, age and rank, with DMF-T, endodontic treatment and dental trauma as outcome measures. Methods: Data from Electronic Patient Files from all recruits enlisted in 2000, 2010 and 2020 were used for analysis in a hurdle model resulting in the estimated cohort effect, controlled for the demographic variables. The total number of recruits was 5,764. Due to the retrospective character of the study a proxy was used to compose D-T and dental trauma. Results: The mean DMF-T number in recruits decreases from 5.3 in cohort 2000 to 4.13 in cohort 2010 and 3.41 in cohort 2020. The percentage of endodontically treated teeth increases from 6% in cohort 2000 to respectively 9% in 2010 and 8% in 2020. The percentage of recruits showing signs of dental trauma did not change significantly between cohort 2000 (3.1%) and cohort 2010 and 2020 (both 2.7%). Conclusions: Oral health in Armed Forces recruits is improving over the years, following a similar trend as the general population in the Netherlands. Lower SES represented by enlisted rank showed substantial lower oral health status.
- Subjects
NETHERLANDS; ENDODONTICS; CROSS-sectional method; TEETH; HEALTH status indicators; RESEARCH funding; SEX distribution; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; AGE distribution; RETROSPECTIVE studies; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; LONGITUDINAL method; ODDS ratio; MEDICAL records; ACQUISITION of data; ROOT canal treatment; DENTAL caries; DATA analysis software; COMPARATIVE studies; CONFIDENCE intervals; ORAL health; MILITARY personnel
- Publication
BMC Oral Health, 2024, Vol 24, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1472-6831
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s12903-024-04687-8