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Trend of Dental Caries in Iran from 1990 to 2015

Objectives: To estimate the trends of prevalence and burden of oral diseases at national and sub-national levels in Iran, evaluation of oral health system and planning preventive programs.
Methods: By systematic review, all dental caries data from community based cross-sectional studies and national surveys from 1990 to 2015 has been included in the analysis. Mixed model with fixed effect of covariates extracted from Household Income and Expenditure survey , random effect of province and spatio-temporal model were applied.
Results: The mean of dmf is estimated 4.04 (girls3.77 boys 4.32), and the mean of DMF is 5.78 (Females 6.15 Males 5.42) at national level from 1990 to 2015.
Conclusions: Iran faced the increasing trend of dental caries in both terms of DMF and dmf during 26 years.
IADR World Congress on Preventive Dentistry
2017 IADR World Congress on Preventive Dentistry (New Delhi, India)
New Delhi, India
2017
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Effective Oral Disease Prevention and Community Health Promotion – Evidence from Global, Regional and National Programs
  • Shoaee, Shervan  ( Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center (NCDRC), EMRI,TUMS , Tehran , Tehran , Iran (the Islamic Republic of) ;  kerman Oral Disease research center , Kerman , Iran (the Islamic Republic of) )
  • Hessari, Hossein  ( Tehran University of Medical Sciences , Tehran , Tehran , Iran (the Islamic Republic of) ;  Research Center for Caries Prevention (RCCP), Dental Research Institute. , Tehran , Iran (the Islamic Republic of) )
    • Kerman university of medical sciences,Iran
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    Poster Session
    Effective Oral Disease Prevention and Community Health Promotion-Evidence from Global, Regional and National Programs II
    Thursday, 10/05/2017 , 11:15AM - 12:30PM
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