The present study was conducted in rural areas of
Konkan region in which a total of 5256 school
children from age group of 6 to 15 years were
screened and 4750 children (90.37%) who were
found to have dental caries were referred to the
BKL Walawalkar hospital for dental treatment. A
total of 3582 school children received treatment in
the hospital. New parameters like caries teeth
percentage and functional capacity percentage
were assessed both at the time of screening and 1st
follow-up. The prevalence of caries was found to
be 90.37%, at the time of screening, the caries
teeth percentage was 23.91% in group I (6years to
10years) and the caries teeth percentage was
13.33% in group II(11years to 15years). Caries
teeth percentage is the number of caries teeth
present in the mouth in relation to the total teeth.
Functional capacity percentage was 38.24% in
group I (6years to 10years) and in group II
(11years to 15years) it was 58.93% at the time of
screening. After treatment at the hospital by
interventions like Glass ionomer cement (GIC),
Permanent filling (P.F), extraction and X ray, the
caries teeth percentage was brought down by
6.75% in group I (6years to 10years) and 3.13% in
group II (11years to 15years) and functional
capacity improved by 77.34% in group I (6years to
10years) and was improved by 82.18% in group II
(11years to 15years). The data analysis was doneusing S.P.S.S software and appropriate statistical
tests were applied for proving the statistical
significance of results. Thus the study proposes
that the above unique assessment tools/indicators
and interventions should be used apart from the
usually used prevalence of caries and DMFT
indices.
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Author Name: Asawari R. Modak, Mugdha D. Shirsath, Avinash.B. Kondejkar.
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Keywords: Prevalence of caries, Caries teeth percentage,
ISSN: 2349-2910
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EOI/DOI: August 2014
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