Epidemiology of dental caries in children in the United Arab Emirates.
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Baseline data available on the dmft and DMFT indicate that childhood dental caries is still a serious dental public health problem in the UAE that warrants immediate attention by the government and policy makers.About:
This article is published in International Dental Journal.The article was published on 2014-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 29 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Early childhood caries & Dental public health.read more
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YouTube as a source for parents' education on early childhood caries
TL;DR: YouTube™ should not be used as a trusted site for educating patients on ECC, according to the guidelines of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry.
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Early childhood caries and associated risk factors among preschool children in Ras Al-Khaimah, United Arab Emirates
TL;DR: The prevalence of dental decay and the mean dmft were high and the care index was extremely low and there is a great need for prospective studies and community preventive programs to solve the problem of ECC and set plans to treat open cavities in RAK preschool children.
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Breastfeeding and early childhood caries: a meta-analysis of observational studies.
TL;DR: Ever breastfeeding may protect children from ECC, and breastfeeding duration >=12 months is associated with higher ECC risk, and additional large cohort studies are required to illustrate the relationship in further study.
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A Comparison of Dental Caries in Urban and Rural Children of the Riyadh Region of Saudi Arabia.
TL;DR: The results of this study suggest that the prevalence and severity of dental caries in Saudi Arabia remain high, when compared to global averages.
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Contemporary dental caries management concepts in paediatric dentistry: A survey of awareness and practice of a group of gulf cooperation council dentists.
TL;DR: Overall the surveyed dentists practicing in the GCC disagreed on RCM, PM with reluctance to accept new concepts like the HT and SDC, and their awareness of HT and practice of HT were more favourable.
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Risk factors for dental caries in young children: a systematic review of the literature.
TL;DR: There is a shortage of high quality studies using the optimum study design, i.e. a longitudinal study, which suggests that children are most likely to develop caries if Streptococcus Muttans is acquired at an early age, although this may be partly compensated by other factors such as good oral hygiene and a non-cariogenic diet.
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Socioeconomic inequalities in oral health in childhood and adulthood in a birth cohort
William Murray Thomson,Richie Poulton,Barry J. Milne,Avshalom Caspi,John Broughton,Kathryn M.S. Ayers +5 more
TL;DR: Adult oral health is predicted by not only childhood socioeconomic advantage or disadvantage, but also by oral health in childhood, and changes in socioeconomic advantage and disadvantage are associated with differing levels of Oral health in adulthood.
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The caries decline: a review of reviews
TL;DR: The conclusion made from this review is that the various authors believe that the use of fluoride in various forms has contributed most significantly to the decline in dental caries prevalence.
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Occlusal caries detection in primary teeth: a comparison of DIAGNOdent with conventional methods
D.C. Attrill,Paul Ashley +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the accuracy and repeatability of three diagnostic systems (DIAGNOdent, visual and radiographic) for occlusal caries diagnosis in primary molars.