Dental erosion amongst 13- and 14-year-old Brazilian schoolchildren

Abstract

These data are the first to show that in a cohort of 13-14-year old Brazilian schoolchildren, approximately one third of those examined showed mild erosion, requiring clinical preventive counselling. No statistically significant association was observed between erosion, gender and socioeconomic factors.

Oral health habits, prevalence of dental caries and dental erosion in adolescents

“…Relative to erosive lesions, 18.4% of the sample presented lesion in at least one tooth, similar to the findings of Gurgel et al 8 and Mangueira et al 10 . Over the course of the last decade there has been a significant increase in the prevalence and severity of erosive dental wear, particularly in children and adolescents 9,14,27 .…”

“…Twenty individuals were examined, and exams were repeated until the examiners knew the criteria well. However, it was not possible to perform clinical observation of all the grades suggested by the O´Sullivan 6 index, which involved the use of intra-oral color photographic images [8][9][10] for discussing the clinical aspects of each grade and mounting matrices for comparison of the diagnoses and performing the Cohen kappa test 13 . The Kappa inter and intra-examiner values obtained were 0.74 and 0.82, respectively.…”

“…This is of idiopathic origin or is caused by a known source of acid 6 , with individual factors and lifestyle having great relevance in its development 7 . Although studies on the prevalence of tooth erosion have been conducted in Brazil [8][9][10][11] studies involving adolescents in the Brazilian Northeast are still rare 7 . In view of the foregoing, the aim of this study was to evaluate the oral hygiene habits and the prevalence of dental caries and erosion in adolescents.…”

Okul çağındaki Türk çocuklarında diş erozyonu görülme sıklığı ve sosyoekonomik faktörlerle ilişkisi

“…There is evidence that the prevalence of dental erosion is gradually increasing (Auad et al 2007). Turkey has a young population of 20 million children aged 0 to 16 years old.…”

“…The results of other surveys varied. For example, Auad et al (2007) and Mangueira et al (2009) reported that the palatal surfaces were the most affected. The consumption of erosive drinks and food was also shown to be strongly associated with erosion on the facial and occlusal surfaces, while severe palatal erosion occurred infrequently and were highly associated with chronic vomiting (Lussi et al 1991).…”