DENTAL SURVEY IN NIGERIA PART I. PREVALENCE OF DENTAL CARIES IN NIGERIA

Kinziro KUBOTA; Shogoro OKADA; Yoshiaki ONO; Minoru NAKATA; Masatoshi OHNISHI; Yasuhisa KAMEDA; T. Adesanya Ige Grillo; N. O. Hollist; S. O. Johnson

doi:10.11480/btmd.310201

Kinziro KUBOTA, Shogoro OKADA, Yoshiaki ONO, Minoru NAKATA, Masatoshi OHNISHI, Yasuhisa KAMEDA, T. Adesanya Ige Grillo, N. O. Hollist, S. O. Johnson

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Kinziro KUBOTA
Institute of Stomatognathic Science, Faculty of Dentistry, Tokyo Medical and Dental University [Japan]
Shogoro OKADA
Department of Preventive Dentistry and Public Health, Faculty of Dentistry, Tokyo Medical and Dental University [Japan]
Yoshiaki ONO
Department of Pedodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Tokyo Medical and Dental University [Japan]
Minoru NAKATA
Department of Pedodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Kyushu University [Japan]
Masatoshi OHNISHI
Department of Oral Surgery, Yamanashi Medical College [Japan]
Yasuhisa KAMEDA
Department of Conservative Dentistry, Nippon Dental University, Tokyo [Japan]
T. Adesanya Ige Grillo
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ife [Nigeria]
N. O. Hollist
Department of Dental and Oral Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ife [Nigeria]
S. O. Johnson
Ministry of Health in Nigeria [Nigeria]

Keywords: Dental caries, dental epidemiological survey, Nigerian school children

JOURNAL OPEN ACCESS

1984 Volume 31 Issue 2 Pages 61-72

DOI https://doi.org/10.11480/btmd.310201

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Abstract

A joint dental epidemiological survey was carried out in 1981 in the ancient city of Ile-Ife and its environs in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The survey was made with the University of Ife, Ile-Ife, Oyo State, Nigeria, as the base. The occurrence of caries in 898 Nigerian school children of 509 urban and 389 rural children was compared with the occurrence of caries in the Japanese children. The results showed that the incidence of caries in the Nigerian school children was much lower than that of their Japanese counterpart. However, it is projected that with the increase in the consumption of sweet drinks and food in Nigeria, if superimposed on the existing poor oral hygiene, the incidence of caries will increase greatly.

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