Eur J Paediatr Dent. 2025 Jan 1:1. doi: 10.23804/ejpd.2025.2126. Online ahead of print.
ABSTRACT
AIM: To estimate the prevalence of early childhood caries and to study a possible influence on different ethnicities in preschool children aged 3 to 5 with social exclusion risk.
BACKGROUND: Oral diseases are a major global public health problem, with negative effects at both individual and collective levels, and there is a relationship between socioeconomic characteristics such as income, occupation and educational level, with the prevalence and severity of oral diseases.
METHODS: A cross sectional study was conducted in a sample of 288 preschool children belonging to three schools in the Southeastern Spain among other variables dmft and ICDASS index.
CONCLUSION: The ethnicity of school children at risk of social exclusion is a determining factor in the increased prevalence of cavities in primary caries.
PMID:39764797 | DOI:10.23804/ejpd.2025.2126
