| Summary: | 碩士 === 高雄醫學大學 === 口腔衛生科學研究所 === 88 === Key Words: , , , , ,
The preschool children’s milk teeth are in the period of developing or dropping,in the mean while, permanent teeth are growingDue to lack of doing good oral hygiene, the milk teeth are almost decayed beforethey fall. The formal study shows that caries indexes among 5 years old children in Taiwan area are 6.5(boys) and 8.4(girls). Refer to some related studies, it appears that the prevalence rate of caries in some of the mountain area elementary school studentsreaches to 100%, but the treatment rate is low to 0%! If preschool children with caries hadn’t been well cared, they would be deeply affected not only in their permanent teeth’s development and health, but also mental condition. Besides the poor medical resources, what else factors can affect the caries and oral status of preschool children in mountain area? It’s worthy for us to study.
This study is mainly based on 3 to 6 years old children, cases are selected from 8nursery schools and kindergartens in mountain areas of Pingtung county, Taiwan province.
There are two statistic methods: oral examine cards and structured questionnaires. The goal of this study is to understand the status and causes of dental caries in mountain area preschool children and wish to provide suggesstions for health government.
A total of 584 children’s oral examine cards were collected, 528valid to analyse, 277 boys and 251 girls, 178 aged 3-year to 4-year (33.7%), 215 aged 4-year to 5-year (40.7%), 135 aged 5-year to 6-year( 25.6%), and the complete rate was 90.41%. In other way, a total of 170 were selected by clustered sampling for the study of oral status and affected factors, with the structed questionnaires answered by their parents or conservators.
The results revealed that the dental caries prevalence rate was 78.96% ,the mean deft of all children was 5.33, and the defs was 9.90. The fissure pattern was the most common seen.
We concluded that besides children’s ages, the educational levels and attitudes towards oral health , and sweet intakes show statistical correlation. Among these factors, sweet intakes are the major one . In Pingtung, we compare the preschool children with the preschool children in mountain areas, the prevalence rate of dental caries former is lower 14.47% than latter, the deft is 3.36 to 5.33, and the defs is 5.66 to 9.90.
It appears that the dental caries status of preschool children in mountain areas of Pingtung county is serious. Obviously, except the attitudes and behaviors of their parents or conservators, no dental manpower is also the important factor.
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