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Studio epidemiologico sullo sviluppo di carie
nei bambini delle scuole materne: una base
per l’elaborazione di un progetto di prevenzione
1Viggiano D, 2Fasano D, 3Borgherese C, 4Bianchi A, 5Strohmenger L.
1Pediatra di base, Cava de’ Tirreni;
2Odontoiatra, UO materno-infantile, Area materno-infantile, Cava de’ Tirreni;
3Coordinatore Area Materno-Infantile, ASL 1 Salerno; Direttore Sanitario, Cava de’ Tirreni (SA);
5Responsabile Centro di Collaborazione dell’OMS per l’Epidemiologia e la Prevenzione Orale, Milano
Maggio 2000 - pagg. 325 -328
Abstract
Data relative to the oral health of children attending nursery
schools in the district of Cava dei Tirreni, a small town in Campania,
in the province of Salerno. For the three years under examination,
the DMFT values turned out to be 1.7 (children suffering
from caries 35%), 1.3 (children suffering from caries 28%)
and 1.5 (children suffering from caries 32%). The incidence of
caries increases as children grow up and it depends upon the
economic and school levels of the family.
This study was aimed at devising a prevention campaign to be
launched since childbirth. The program should rely on the health
education of the whole population, starting from the mother at
childbirth, as well as on the identification and the follow-up of
children at risk (mothers with a high charge of Streptococcus mutans,
socio-economic situation and poor oral hygiene of the family).