A study of 11,525 18 year old men in southern Sweden in 1983

At the Enrollment Board of the Armed Forces in Southern Sweden in Kristianstad 11,525 conscripts, born in 1965, have been investigated according to the occurrence of fillings of the posterior teeth. Questions have been put forward to previous schools and places of dental care. The results confirm previous observations in studies of similar kind, namely a continued improvement of dental health of the age stratum concerned. All participants had received regular dental care during the period of childhood and early adolescence and 99.3% of them had attended the National Dental Health Service. About 15% had left school after primary school. 48.2% of the subjects did not have any proximal fillings in the teeth observed and 2.8% showed no restoration at all in their teeth. Of those, who had proximal fillings, 40.0% had less than 5 proximal surfaces filled, and 2.4% more than 8 such surfaces filled in the posterior teeth of the right jaw.