模拟化水对苏格兰牙的潜在影响:试点研究
Ahmed Al Rasheed1, Sucharita Nanjappa2, Peter Mossey2
1University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom. alrasheed1889@gmail.com.
British dental journal
|January 6, 2026
概括
化水可以显著减少苏格兰儿童的牙,改善口腔健康结果. 虽然预计所有社会经济群体都将受益,但在较不贫困地区出现了最大的改善.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 流行病学 流行病学
- 牙科研究 牙科研究
背景情况:
- 牙损伤是苏格兰持续存在的公共卫生问题.
- 儿童微笑计划已经看到儿童口腔健康的改善和持续的不平等.
- 苏格兰目前缺乏活跃的化水方案,尽管有证据表明其有效.
研究的目的:
- 估计水化对苏格兰儿童牙损伤的影响.
- 分析化水的潜在影响的社会经济变化.
- 利用国家牙科检查计划 (NDIP) 的数据和公布的效果大小进行估计.
主要方法:
- 使用2023年和2024年NDIP报告的数据进行了描述性,定量分析.
- 效应大小是从2024年科克兰评论中获得的.
- 使用R软件计算了化后预测的dmft/DMFT和无的比例.
主要成果:
- 总体平均dmft/DMFT (腐烂,缺失和填充的牙) 减少了,并且在初级1和初级7的儿童中,无牙比例增加了.
- 在所有苏格兰多重剥夺指数五分位数中观察到牙损伤结果的预测改善.
- 在最不贫困的社会经济群体中,预测牙损伤的绝对改善更大.
结论:
- 据估计,重新引入苏格兰的水化将为儿童的口腔健康提供显著的公共卫生益处.
- 这项研究表明,化水具有有益的影响,尽管统一的效果大小可能会低估高风险群体的影响.
- 未来的研究应该纳入社会经济地位特定的效应大小,以更准确地建模影响.
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