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Oral Biofilm Sampling for Microbiome Analysis in Healthy Children
Published on: December 31, 2017
A prospective cohort study on emergence of permanent teeth and caries experience in Korean children
Choongrak Kim1, Younghee Hong, Dong-Hun Han
1Department of Statistics, College of Natural Sciences, Pusan National University, Pusan, Korea.
Objectives:
The objectives of this study were to investigate permanent tooth emergence during a 9-year longitudinal study and to assess the effect of dental caries in primary teeth on the emergence of permanent teeth.
Methods:
Data on caries occurrence in primary teeth were obtained at the baseline by a trained dentist. Permanent tooth emergence data of 539 students from 16 elementary schools in Yeoncheon were examined annually from 1995 to 2003 using dental casts. The median age at emergence of the teeth was calculated using a linear logistic regression model. A multiple linear regression model was used to evaluate the effect of caries on the emergence of permanent teeth.
Results:
The age of permanent tooth emergence was different between boys and girls, but the difference was not statistically significant at the 5% level. Having 'decayed teeth' hastened the emergence of most second premolars and second molars, whereas the regression coefficients ranged from -1.23 to -0.82. The number of 'filled teeth' showed a correlation with maxillary second premolars and mandibular first premolar, and the regression coefficients ranged from -1.92 to -3.25.
Conclusions:
Having dental caries in primary teeth can be a strong predictor of earlier emergence of permanent teeth.
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