DENTAL CARIES

Dental Caries and Gingivitis

Dental Caries and Gingivitis

Purpose of the Study

This study is based on the research about dental caries and gingivitis among 15 to 19 year-old students in Manaus, AM, Brazil conducted by Rebelo MAB, Lopes MC, Vieira JMR & Parente in 2009. In this study I will explain that how beneficial is this research within the context of previous research and how beneficial it could be for future research. Main aim of this study is to discuss short-comings and methodological flaws along with ethical issues that may not have been considered.

Introduction

Despite numerous epidemiologic studies currently available to assess the pattern of dental caries in oral health, there are still some fundamental questions that remain unanswered. Dental caries is an environmental infection in which the diet, the owner and the microbial flora interact over a time span of time in such a way as to boost demineralisation of the tooth enamel with resultant caries formation. Dental caries is still one of the most common infections in the world today (Rebelo MAB, Lopes MC, Vieira JMR & Parente 2009, 248-54). Until lately nearly every individual had experienced tooth breakdown in their lifetime. However, today numerous persons are caries free and there has been a 40-60 % decrease in the incidence of tooth breakdown round the Western world. Most evolved nations and numerous non-industrialised nations are now well underneath the World Health Organisation aim of less than 3 decayed, missing or topped up teeth per 12 year vintage child. The objective of this research was to:

Contribute to the information of the oral wellbeing of adolescents elderly 15 to 19 years in the town of Manaus, State of Amazonas (AM), by approximating the occurrence of dental caries and gingivitis amidst this community, contemplating that they are the most widespread oral diseases.

 

 Context of the Research

Dental caries is advised an infection of worldwide prevalence and incidence, constituting an important public wellbeing dispute in diverse countries (Rebelo MAB, Lopes MC, Vieira JMR & Parente 2009, 248-54). Regional communal dissimilarities both in evolved and in evolving nations are furthermore conveyed through the health-disease method, therefore displaying that the unequal incidence of caries in distinct populations is not only the outcome of one-by-one biological variations, but socioeconomic components as well.1 Hence, identifying this infection and working out its magnitude and circulation in populations is a foremost step in commanding or sustaining it at agreeable levels. Contrary to the position amidst 12-year-old children, couple of investigations have been undertook to characterize the oral wellbeing of adolescents and young adults in Brazil. Only two nationwide surveys have covered the age variety from 15 to 19 years, and both have shown that caries was larger in 15 to 19-yearolds than amidst 12-year-olds. Although Manaus is advised a large-sized city, with its community of 1,612,475 inhabitants, only one epidemiological study has been conducted, among 12-year-old young children in 2004,5 that found moderate occurrence of dental caries, according to World Health Organization (WHO) criteria. The growth of the town has appeared quickly and, in many localities, in a disorderly manner. This has caused serious difficulties for the town, not only of an environmental and communal environment, but furthermore in consider to public ...