Nesrine Ben Salah
Comparison of oral health in children aged 5-6 years in the Czech Republic and Yemen
Masaryk University|Thamar University
objective dental caries widespread oral disease world multifactorial aetiologyit hinders ability eat good food also affects perfect speech wellbeingas disease almost completely preventable early stage well treatable prevalence dental caries expresses lack public health literacy skills dental hygiene availability adequate dental carechildren especially vulnerable dental caries hence recommends regular monitoring childrens oral health also appropriate controls continual improvementwe describe part study targeted dental health czech cr yemeni ye school children association basic anthropometric markers nutritionmethods total 190 children aged 56 years 100 cr 90 ye 111 males 79 females 225 wider study 515 years old children involved obtaining informed consent parentsthe sample representativeall dental examinations performed accordance criteria examinereach individual tooth whether primary permanent identified intact untreated decayed extracted filledalso dmftdmft indexes individual children calculatedanthropometric measurements performed standardized methods body mass index bmiforage calculatedfor statistical evaluation differences program medcalc software inc belgium used especially ttest pearsons correlation rho 95 confidence interval ci spearmens rank correlation coefficient pvalues less 005 considered significantresults dental caries prevalence dmft scores 212431were found rather high among age group children significant differences relation gender country 300 less children caries freethe decayed component major part dmft scores evaluation restorative index ri indicates high percentage untreated caries high treatment needespecially yemeni children dental caries wholly untreated ri 00 also cr dental care rather poor ri 3841the levels associations oral health markers dmftdmft bmi inconsistent positive negative without statistical significanceconclusions high prevalence poor dental health groups czech yemeni children low even treatment urge effort include recommendations practice national health policiesprevention control dental caries promoted dentists targeting children whole family dental habits lifestyle cooperation schools paediatricians general practitioners gynaecologists targeting new expectant mothers increase knowledge skills