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Oral Health Assessment by Lay Personnel for Older Adults
Published on: February 2, 2020
[Oral health survey in professors of Tsinghua University]
1Stomatology Department of Tsinghua University Hospital, Beijing 100084, China.
Objective:
Investigating the conditions of oral health in professors, promoting the prophylactico-therapeutic standard of dental diseases in the university.
Methods:
The table and the standard on oral health survey authorized by WHO were adopted, conditions of dental and periodontal diseases in 965 of professors of Tsinghua university was standardly investigated.
Results:
(1) Caries prevalence was 51.92%, caries average 1.66+/-0.31, caries activity teeth constituted 22.94% in DMFT, caries missing teeth constituted 25.56%, caries filled teeth constituted 51.50%. (2) Gingival bleeding average zones were 1.26+/-0.21, incidence 48.71%; shallow periodontal pocket average zones were 0.28+/-0.08, incidence 15.34%; deep periodontal pocket average zones were 0.10+/-0.08, incidence 6.84%. (3) Wedge shaped defect teeth average of the persons was 1.85+/-0.54, incidence 30.00% .
Conclusion:
Conditions of caries were better than the data throughout the country, the incidence of periodontal diseases were higher, wedge shaped defect had been decaying teeth of middle and old aged professors.
