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CHANGE IN DMFT COUNTS IN ADULT POPULATION OF LJUBLJANA OVER A 20-YEAR PERIOD
Objectives: The aim of our study was to assess the change in DMFT counts in adult population of Ljubljana over a 20 - year period.
Methods: We included in our study 238 35-85 year old Ljubljana citizens that had already attended two epidemiological studies on Ljubljana population 10 (Skaleric& Kovac-Kavcic, 1991) and 20 (Kovac-Kavcic& Skaleric, 2001) years ago. Among the examined were 100 men and 238 women. The number of examined in each age group was as follows: 50 35-year olds, 21 45-year olds, 48 55-year olds, 56 60-year olds, 42 75-year olds and 21 85-year olds. We examined our patients at the Department of Oral diseases and Periodontology in Ljubljana Dental Clinic. We used the DMFT index to assess the state of teeth as the same index had been used in the previous two studies.
Results: In a 20-year period we could observe an increase in average number of carious teeth in all age groups (except in 35-year old population where a decrease was seen), a decrease in average number of missing teeth in all age groups and an increase in average number of filled teeth in all age groups. DMFT values decreased in all age groups (except in 45-year old population) mainly on behalf of decrease of average number of missing teeth in a 20-year period. In all age groups patients had in average 3.2 more teeth in their oral cavity than the same age groups 20 years ago.
Conclusions: We can conclude that the average number of teeth in adult population of Ljubljana is increasing.
Methods: We included in our study 238 35-85 year old Ljubljana citizens that had already attended two epidemiological studies on Ljubljana population 10 (Skaleric& Kovac-Kavcic, 1991) and 20 (Kovac-Kavcic& Skaleric, 2001) years ago. Among the examined were 100 men and 238 women. The number of examined in each age group was as follows: 50 35-year olds, 21 45-year olds, 48 55-year olds, 56 60-year olds, 42 75-year olds and 21 85-year olds. We examined our patients at the Department of Oral diseases and Periodontology in Ljubljana Dental Clinic. We used the DMFT index to assess the state of teeth as the same index had been used in the previous two studies.
Results: In a 20-year period we could observe an increase in average number of carious teeth in all age groups (except in 35-year old population where a decrease was seen), a decrease in average number of missing teeth in all age groups and an increase in average number of filled teeth in all age groups. DMFT values decreased in all age groups (except in 45-year old population) mainly on behalf of decrease of average number of missing teeth in a 20-year period. In all age groups patients had in average 3.2 more teeth in their oral cavity than the same age groups 20 years ago.
Conclusions: We can conclude that the average number of teeth in adult population of Ljubljana is increasing.