| dc.creator | Espinoza-Espinoza, Gerardo | |
| dc.creator | Muñoz-Millán, Patricia | |
| dc.creator | Vergara-González, Carolina | |
| dc.creator | Atala-Acevedo, Claudia | |
| dc.creator | Zaror, Carlos | |
| dc.date | 2016-12-22 | |
| dc.identifier | http://www.joralres.com/index.php/JOR/article/view/joralres.2016.064 | |
| dc.identifier | 10.17126/joralres.2016.064 | |
| dc.description | Introduction: Early Childhood Caries (ECC) constitutes a serious public health issue worldwide, especially in communities without water fluoridation. Objectives: To assess the prevalence of ECC in children 2 and 3 years old from rural preeschools without access to water fluoridation. Methods: A cross-sectional study to community level was performed during 2012. The eligible population was children 2 and 3 years old from rural preschools in non-fluoridated areas located in the Regions of the Araucanía, Los Ríos and Los Lagos. Four calibrated researchers (ICC= 0.83) determined the prevalence of dental caries on the criteria proposed by the WHO. The data was analyzed using the statisticals, chi-square test, t-test and logistic regression models. Results: The sample was constituted by 587 children of whom 53.32% had 2 years old and 52.47 were girls. The prevalence of ECC was 51.62% with a dmft index average of 2.53. The Region with the most prevalence was Araucania with a 52.79%. The variables that showed association were age, IHO-S and prevision (p<0.05). Conclusion: The prevalence of ECC in non-fluoridated areas is high. | en-US |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Facultad de Odontología, Universidad de Concepción, Chile. | en-US |
| dc.relation | http://www.joralres.com/index.php/JOR/article/view/joralres.2016.064/267 | |
| dc.source | Journal of Oral Research; Vol 5 No 8; 307-313 | es-ES |
| dc.source | Journal of Oral Research; Vol 5 No 8; 307-313 | en-US |
| dc.source | 0719-2479 | |
| dc.source | 0719-2460 | |
| dc.subject | Dental caries; prevalence; epidemiology; preschool. | en-US |
| dc.title | Prevalence of early childhood caries in non-fluoridated rural areas of Chile. | en-US |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | |
| dc.type | Articles | en-US |
