PREVALENCE SURVEY OF DENTAL CARIES IN
274—PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN
Bian Yan
School of Nursing,
Peking Union Medical
College, Beijing 100730, China
Objective: To study the
situation and the cause of caries of milk deciduous teeth in preschool
children.
Methods: Data were
collected by questionnaire from their parents.
Results: The rate of
caries is 75.9%. Higher the rate is elder the age is. The children with
good oral health habits showed significantly different from the negative
groups in caries.
Conclusion: these
results suggested that it could be an emphasis on the oral health education
for preschool children in caries preventive care.
Key words: milk deciduous teeth, dental caries