Prevalence of Dental Fluorosis in a City without Fluoridation in its Water Supply: Effect of Sampling
| Title: | Prevalence of Dental Fluorosis in a City without Fluoridation in its Water Supply: Effect of Sampling |
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| Authors: | Maria Cristina de Matos Castilho, Luciane Zanin, Flávia Martão Flório |
| Source: | Pesquisa Brasileira em Odontopediatria e Clínica Integrada, Vol 20 (2022) |
| Publisher Information: | Association of Support to Oral Health Research (APESB), 2022. |
| Publication Year: | 2022 |
| Collection: | LCC:Dentistry |
| Subject Terms: | Epidemiologic Studies, Cross-Sectional Studies, Fluorosis, Dental, Dentifrices, Dentistry, RK1-715 |
| More Details: | Objective: To determine the prevalence of dental fluorosis in a population not exposed to fluoridated water and to evaluate the effect of the sampling technique on this measurement. Material and Methods: This observational, cross-sectional and quantitative study was conducted in the city of Mariana, Brazil. The participants were selected based on age, so that they had access to fluoridated dentifrice during the formation of the permanent upper teeth. Based on a nominal survey of schoolchildren aged 14 to 19, a probabilistic sample of 304 such children was clinically examined. Dental fluorosis was measured by the Thylstrup-Fejerskov index. The prevalence of fluorosis identified in a previous study, conducted in 2011 in the same city, using the same methodology but employing convenience sampling, was used as a control to compare the effect of the two sampling techniques. Results: The prevalence of dental fluorosis was 3% based on the probabilistic sampling of the subjects. In the previous study, the prevalence of fluorosis was 7% (p |
| Document Type: | article |
| File Description: | electronic resource |
| Language: | English Portuguese |
| ISSN: | 1519-0501 1983-4632 |
| Relation: | https://revista.uepb.edu.br/PBOCI/article/view/1112; https://doaj.org/toc/1519-0501; https://doaj.org/toc/1983-4632 |
| Access URL: | https://doaj.org/article/f856161aceee4d1ca40dbec98db87791 |
| Accession Number: | edsdoj.f856161aceee4d1ca40dbec98db87791 |
| Database: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| ISSN: | 15190501 19834632 |
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| Published in: | Pesquisa Brasileira em Odontopediatria e Clínica Integrada |
| Language: | English Portuguese |