Socioeconomic Inequality in Dental Caries Experience Expressed by the Significant Caries Index: Cross-Sectional Results From the RaNCD Cohort Study [PDF]
International Dental Journal, 2021 Introduction: Socioeconomic inequality in dental caries among Iranian middle-aged adults remains largely unstudied. This study aimed to measure socioeconomic inequality in dental caries experience and to identify determinants of this inequality ...
Moslem Soofi +6 more
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Salivary Characteristics, Individual Casual Parameters, and Their Relationships with the Significant Caries Index among Korean Children Aged 12 Years [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021 This study aimed to investigate the salivary characteristics and individual daily living patterns in Korean children aged 12 years and evaluate their relationships according to the significant caries (SiC) index. The study sample consisted of 52 healthy Korean children.
Jae-Hwan Kim +2 more
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Inequalities of caries experience in Nevada youth expressed by DMFT index vs. Significant Caries Index (SiC) over time [PDF]
BMC Oral Health, 2011 Background With the increasingly polarized distribution of dental caries among children and adolescents, the usual DMFT measure has become a less meaningful population descriptor.
Mobley Connie +3 more
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Evaluation of Dental Caries Among Preschool Children in Kathmandu- Using Significant Caries Index.
Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2017 INTRODUCTION: Dental caries among preschool children is common but there is scarcity of updated data about its prevalence among Nepalese preschool children.
senchhema limbu +2 more
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Evaluation of Dental Caries Prevalence among Children in Mosul City Center Using Significant Caries Index [PDF]
Al-Rafidain Dental Journal, 2012 Aims of the study: To evaluate the prevalence of dental caries among children aged 9-10 years in Mo-sul City Center and to compare between traditional index and significant caries index of these students.
Saher S Gasgoos +2 more
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International Dental Journal, 2000 To describe a new index, the 'Significant Caries Index' (SiC Index) with the intention of focusing attention on those individuals with the highest caries scores in each population.Attention is drawn to the skewed distribution of dental caries within a given population, indicating that there are still large groups of individuals who have considerably ...
D Bratthall, D Bratthall
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Significant Caries Index: A Better Indicator for Dental Caries [PDF]
International Journal of Medicine and Public Health, 2019 Dental caries is one of the oro-dental diseases which is highly prevalent in India.1,2 DMFT index has been widely used to assess the caries status among individuals by computing the mean number of Decayed (D), Missing (M) and Filled (F) teeth in a ...
Rupsa Banerjee, Bratati Banerjee
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Dental caries experience among school children of Eastern Nepal - significant caries index
Health Renaissance, 2015 Background: Dental caries, an infectious microbiologic disease of dental hard tissues, is a common public health problem worldwide. The distribution of dental caries studied in any population, shows that a few in the population experience a lot of decayed teeth and most do not experience any at all or experience very little.Objective: To assess the ...
A Shrestha, T K Bhagat
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Significant caries index values and related factors in 5-6-year-old children in Istanbul, Turkey
Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, 2009 To evaluate significant caries (SiC) index values and related factors in Turkish children aged 5-6 years old, children from 5 nursery schools in Istanbul were included in a cross-sectional study. Sociodemographic information and data about oral care habits were obtained from the records and from parents.
Namal, Necmi +2 more
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Caries Prevalence in 12-year-old Children of Isfahan City Expressed by the Significant Caries Index
مجله دانشکده دندانپزشکی اصفهان, 2006 Introduction: The Significant Caries (SiC) has been defined to determine dental caries for different societies by Word Health Organization. The good of present study was to evaluate Sic in 12-year-old students in city of Isfahan and make a comparison ...
Sh - Javadinejad, M Karami, HR Azizi
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