Evaluation of dental caries and nursing caries prevalence in pre-school children living in a high fluoride area of Turkey
Children in nursery schools from each neighbourhood of Isparta city, a high fluoride area of Turkey which has drinking water fluoride ranging from 0.14 to 3.40 mg/L, were randomly selected and screened for this study. Out of 566 children between 2.5 and 6 years of age who were screened, 520 (91.9%)...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Fluoride 2004-11, Vol.37 (4), p.278-290 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Children in nursery schools from each neighbourhood of Isparta city, a high fluoride area of Turkey which has drinking water fluoride ranging from 0.14 to 3.40 mg/L, were randomly selected and screened for this study. Out of 566 children between 2.5 and 6 years of age who were screened, 520 (91.9%) met the inclusion criteria (240 girls and 280 boys). An inverse correlation was found between dental fluorosis and nursing caries at a significance level of P0.05), there was an inverse correlation between fluorosis and the number of carious teeth (P |
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| ISSN: | 0015-4725 |