A Study of dental caries prevalence in 12–14 year old school children in Ibadan,Nigeria |
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| Institution: | 1. Consellería de Sanidadem, Dirección Xeral de Innovación e Xestión da Saúde Pública, Axencia de Evaluación de Tecnoloxías Sanitarias de Galicia (avalia-t), Santiago de Compostela, La Coruña, España;2. Servizo de Oftalmoloxía, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario A Coruña, La Coruña, España;1. Karaganda State Medical University, Karaganda, Kazakhstan;2. Astana Medical University, Astana, Kazakhstan;3. Northern State Medical University, Arkhangelsk, Russia;4. International Kazakh-Turkish University, Turkestan, Kazakhstan;5. North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russia;6. Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway;1. Facial Cleft Deformity Clinic, Department of Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery, University of Pretoria, South Africa;2. College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa;1. Post-Fellowship Senior Registrar, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi – Araba, Lagos, Nigeria;2. Registrar, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi – Araba, Lagos, Nigeria;3. Senior Registrar, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria;4. Professor/ Consultant, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Lagos/ Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi – Araba, Lagos, Nigeria;1. Division of Health Systems and Public Health, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa;2. Division of Clinical Pathology, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa;3. Non-Communicable Diseases Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa;4. Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa. |
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| Abstract: | The aim of the study was to determine dental caries prevalence among a representative sample of 12–14 year old school children in Ibadan, Nigeria with a view of determining Restorative Index and Met Need Index of the studied population. Dental caries was diagnosed according to the WHO method. Out of the 577 children in the age group, 65 children (11.2%) had dental caries experience as expressed with the DMFT index. More than 85% of the children were caries free. A mode of one DMFT was the highest score for the children although a 14-year-old pupil had DMFT score of 6. Female children had higher mean DMFT score of 2.03 ± 1.13 compared with 1.78 ± 1.0 for males (P > 0.05). The Restorative Index (RI) and Met Need Index (MNI) for the children were very low as only the 14-year-old children had an RI of 3.45% and MNI of 0.11. Restorative Index reflects the restorative care of those who have suffered the disease and it is measured as a ratio of filled to filled plus decayed teeth percent that is F/F+D percent. Met Need Index is an indication of treatment received by an individual and it is measured by the ratio of the mean missing plus filled teeth to mean decayed, missing and filled teeth that is M+F/DMF. Since cost of management, which may be out of the reach of these children, has been identified as one of the factors militating against their receiving treatment, the result of this study suggest that oral health education with emphasis on correcting snacking habits of school children is desirable. |
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| Keywords: | Dental caries Nigerian children Young adolescents |
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