9 REASONS SENIOR DENTAL HEALTH CARE IS IMPORTANT
Oral health care still a significant problem throughout the world! Read more below and thank you for visiting Surrey Endodontic Centre!
Dental caries presents as a continuum from subclinical changes in tooth to dentinal involvement and tooth destruction. While the early stages are asymptomatic, symptoms start with dentinal involvement and if untreated may cause severe pain and infection. While caries experience has declined in many countries over the past 40 years individuals are susceptible throughout life. The aim of this review was to report internally consistent prevalence and incidence estimates of untreated caries for 187 countries, 20 age groups, and both sexes for 1990 and 2010.
Methods
The Medline, Embase, and LILACS databases were searched. Two reviewers independently selected studies and extracted data. Study quality was assessed. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) case definition of untreated caries was “teeth with unmistakable coronal cavity at dentine level, root cavity in cementum that feels soft or leathery to probing, temporary or permanent restorations with a caries lesion”. The untreated caries database was modeled using DisMod-MR, a Bayesian meta-regression tool developed for the GBD 2010 study. Untreated caries in primary and permanent teeth were modeled separately.
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