COMPARISON OF SEVERE EARLY CHILDHOOD CARIES PREVALENCES BY TWO DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA |
Kyoung-Uk Lim, Kwang-Hee Lee, Ji-Young Ra, Dong-Jin Lee, So-Youn An, Ji-Young Kim, Ji-Hyun Song, Yun-Hee Kim |
Department of Pediatric Dentistry, College of Dentistry, Wonkwang University |
진단 기준에 따른 취학전 어린이의 중증 유아기 우식증 유병률 비교 |
임경욱, 이광희, 라지영, 이동진, 안소연, 김지영, 송지현, 김윤희 |
원광대학교 치과대학 소아치과학교실 |
Correspondence:
Kwang-Hee Lee, Tel: 063-859-2957, Email: kwhlee@wonkwang.ac.kr |
Received: 29 May 2008 • Accepted: 23 September 2008 |
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Abstract |
The purpose of study was to compare the prevalences of severe early childhood caries(S-ECC) using two different diagnostic criteria. The subjects of this study included 401 preschool children from 36 to 71 months of the randomly selected seven nurseries in Iksan city. Severe early childhood caries was defined as (1) 1 or more cavitated, missing (due to caries), or filled smooth surfaces in primary maxillary anterior teeth or (2) a decayed, missing, or filled score of ≥4 (age 3), ≥5 (age 4), or ≥6 (age 5) surfaces. The prevalence determined by maxillary anterior caries and the prevalence determined by dmfs were 26.7%, 28.9% in 3 years, 32.4%, 30.4% in 4 years, 39.4%, 41.3% in 5 years, and 35.4%, 35.9% in all, respectively. The results suggest that the two diagnostic criteria of the severe early childhood caries yield almost the same results. |
Key Words:
Early childhood caries, Prevalence, Diagnostic criteria |
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