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Dental caries and caries associated factors in Swedish 15-year-olds in relation to immigrant background.
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- Jacobsson, Brittmarie (author)
- Jönköping University,HHJ, Avdelningen för naturvetenskap och biomedicin,HHJ. Centrum för oral hälsa,Oral Hälsovetenskap
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- Wendt, Lill-Kari (author)
- Jönköping University,HHJ, Avdelningen för naturvetenskap och biomedicin,HHJ. Centrum för oral hälsa
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- Johansson, Ingegerd (author)
- Umeå universitet,Kariologi
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- 2005
- 2005
- English.
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In: Swedish Dental Journal. - 0347-9994. ; 29:2, s. 71-79
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Abstract
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- The aim of the present study was to evaluate the prevalence of caries and caries associated variables in 15-year-olds in relation to foreign background and to examine differences in the prevalence of caries in immigrant adolescents according to their length of residence in Sweden. All 15-year-old adolescents (n=143) at one public school in the city of Jönköping, Sweden were asked to participate in the study. The adolescents were divided into two groups according to their background: immigrants and non-immigrants. Data on caries prevalence were extracted from the dental records of the examination made when the participants were 15 years old. The proportions of immigrants and non-immigrants free from carious lesions were equal. Immigrant adolescents, however, had on average more enamel carious lesions. Adolescents born in Sweden of immigrant parents or who had arrived before 1 year of age had a caries prevalence similar to those of non-immigrant adolescents, whereas children who had immigrated to Sweden after 7 years of age had a caries prevalence that was 2-3 times higher. As the caries carious lesions in immigrant adolescents is mainly restricted to the enamel, and possibly reversible, early introduction of preventive programmes seems essential.
Subject headings
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Klinisk medicin -- Odontologi (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Clinical Medicine -- Dentistry (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Adolescent
- Child
- Dental Caries/*epidemiology/ethnology/etiology
- Emigration and Immigration
- Food Habits
- Humans
- Oral Hygiene
- Prevalence
- Questionnaires
- Risk Factors
- Sweden/epidemiology/ethnology
- Paedodontics
- Pedodonti
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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