Prevalence of dental caries in children attended Pedodontic dental clinic Al Mustansiria Collage of Dentistry
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https://doi.org/10.32828/mdj.v8i3.340Keywords:
Key wards: dental caries, children occlusal and interproximal surfaceAbstract
The purpose of the study to evaluate the dental caries in children at 4-11 years old
of age in pedodontic dental clinic of Al-Mustansiria Collage of Dentistry. The total
sample composed of 646 child 329 males and 317 females.
Results showed that the percentage of caries in the occlusal and inter proximal
surfaces were higher in females at age 7-9 years old (51.3%.45.7%) than males
(40.1%, 44.8%), with statistically high significant difference for both males and
females (P<0.01).
The prevalence of dental caries for permanent dentition increase with age means
(0.0006, 0.0099, 0.0263) for males and means (0, 0011, 0.0072 and 0.012)for females.
For primary dentition also highly caries prevalence were showed with increase with
age mean (0.077, 0.008 and 0.05) for males and (0.0868, 0.0776 and 0.068) for
females .with no significant difference for both males and females.
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