Dental Caries Prevalence and Experience in 10-14 Years Old Children in the Nenets Autonomous Area (Arctic Russia) in Relation to Mineral Composition of Drinking Water and Socio-Demographic Factors
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5967481 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria A Gorbatova (0000-0002-6363-9595, Northern State Medical University), I V Matveeva (0000-0002-8406-6116, Northern State Medical University), Galina N Degteva (0000-0002-3269-2588, Northern State Medical University), Lyubov N Gorbatova (0000-0003-0675-3647, Northern State Medical University), A M Grjibovski, Andrej М Grjibovski (0000-0002-5464-0498, North-Eastern Federal University) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Pages | 4-13 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ekologiya Cheloveka (Human Ecology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1728-0869 • E-ISSN: 2949-1444 |
| Publisher | ECO-Vector LLC (PUBLISHER • RU) |
| DOI | 10.33396/1728-0869-2019-12-4-13 |
| OpenAlex | W2996067300 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
Aim: to assess the prevalence and experience of caries among 10-14 years old children in the Nenets Autonomous Area (Arctic Russia) in relation to mineral composition of drinking water and socio-demographic factors. Methods. A cross-sectional study. Altogether, 308 schoolchildren were examined using standard WHO methodology. Caries experience was presented as a sum of decayed, missing and filled teeth (DMFT). Samples of drinking water were taken. Caries prevalence and mean DMFT were presented with 95 % confidence intervals (CI). Categorical variables were analyzed using chi-squared tests. Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney tests were used for numeric data. Spearman's correlation analysis was used to study associations between mineral components of drinking water and MDFT. Results. The prevalence of caries was 72.4 % (95 % CI: 67.2-77.1) with the mean DMFT of 3.46 (95 % CI: 3.13-3.79) % with no gender difference. On average, there were 1.28 (95 % CI: 1.07-1.49) decayed, 0.05 (95 % CI: 0.02-0.09) missing and 2.13 (95 % CI: 1.84-2.4) % filled teeth. Nenets children living in rural areas had lower DMFT-index compared to children from the boarding school and from urban areas (p < 0.001). Russian children from the boarding school had more decayed (p < 0.001) and missing (p < 0.001) teeth than rural and urban children. Weak inverse association (rs = -0.12; p = 0.031) was observed between nitrite-ion concentration and caries experience. Conclusions. No association was found between the mineral components of the drinking water and DMFT except for the nitrite-ion. Significant geographical variation is caries experience were observed. Moreover, mean values for the components of the DMFT-index varied between ethnicities
Confidence interval · Environmental health · Geography · Rural area · Demography · Dental Health and Care Utilization · Dental Research and COVID-19 · Dentistry · Medicine · Oral microbiology and periodontitis research
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
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| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |