Oral Health Status of Vietnamese Children: Findings From the National Oral Health Survey of Vietnam 1999

Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health - Tập 23 Số 2 - Trang 217-227 - 2011
Loc Do1, Andrew J. Spencer1, Kaye Roberts‐Thomson1, Hai Dinh Trinh2, Thuy Thanh Nguyen1
1Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, Dental School, The University of Adelaide, Australia,
2Hanoi Institute of Odonto-Stomatology, Hanoi, Vietnam

Tóm tắt

The National Oral Health Survey of Vietnam 1999 was conducted to inform policy development. Aims. The aims were to describe the oral health status, to analyze its socioeconomic distribution, and to evaluate change over time in the oral health of Vietnamese children. Methods. A multistaged stratified sampling process was employed. Children aged 6 to 17 years were examined by trained and calibrated dental examiners. A parental questionnaire was used. Drinking water was analyzed. Results. Preventive oral health behaviors and dental care utilization were infrequent. The decayed, missing, and filled surfaces referring to primary dentition (dmfs) and permanent dentition (DMFS) scores (SD) were 8.9 (11.3) and 2.5 (4.4), respectively. Primary caries experience was associated with fluoride level in drinking water, age, gender, residential status, and geographical location. Permanent caries was also associated with dental visiting and parental education. There was an increase in the prevalence of dental caries in the Vietnamese child population compared with 10 years earlier. Conclusion. The oral health of Vietnamese children was characterized by high level of dental caries with variation among socioeconomic groups. It suggests the need for a population oral health program that includes measures to target high-need children.

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Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health

Tập 23 Số 2

217-227

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