Permanent dentition caries through the first half of life

Broadbent, Jonathan M.; Page, Lyndie A. Foster; Thomson, W. Murray; Poulton, Richie

doi:10.1038/sj.bdj.2013.991

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“…In all 26 countries included in this study, a vastly increased problem of caries existed in adults than in children. This finding is in line with those from the Dunedin longitudinal study where adults had very much higher levels of caries than when they were children and that caries levels tracked into adult life despite widespread free access to dental care and preventive measures in childhood and adolescence. The most important finding of the present study was the extent of the differences in DMFT between 12‐year‐olds and 35‐ to 44‐year‐olds.…”

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Extent of differences in dental caries in permanent teeth between childhood and adulthood in 26 countries

Bernabé

Sheiham

2014

International Dental Journal

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“…They are set mainly for children aged between 6 and 12 years old. However, evidence from the Dunedin longitudinal study suggests that caries is not only increasing in adults, but is markedly higher than in children.…”

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Extent of differences in dental caries in permanent teeth between childhood and adulthood in 26 countries

Bernabé

Sheiham

2014

International Dental Journal

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“…Following defined populations such as adolescents or elderly subjects in time before and after exposures to various environmental loads will provide information on the adaptive capacity of their respective oral ecosystems and will identify markers for allostatic overload. Ongoing or recently finished cohort studies such as the Dunedin study on more than 1,000 individuals born in 1972/1973 and followed up to the age of 38 have captured only the clinical caries data [Broadbent et al, 2013], since at the time of planning of these studies detailed biological data collection was either deemed unnecessary or was not possible.…”

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Towards Understanding Oral Health

Zaura

Cate

2015

Caries Res

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During the last century, dental research has focused on unraveling the mechanisms behind various oral pathologies, while oral health was typically described as the mere absence of oral diseases. The term ‘oral microbial homeostasis' is used to describe the capacity of the oral ecosystem to maintain microbial community stability in health. However, the oral ecosystem itself is not stable: throughout life an individual undergoes multiple physiological changes while progressing through infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. Recent discussions on the definition of general health have led to the proposal that health is the ability of the individual to adapt to physiological changes, a condition known as allostasis. In this paper the allostasis principle is applied to the oral ecosystem. The multidimensionality of the host factors contributing to allostasis in the oral cavity is illustrated with an example on changes occurring in puberty. The complex phenomenon of oral health and the processes that prevent the ecosystem from collapsing during allostatic changes in the entire body are far from being understood. As yet individual components (e.g. hard tissues, microbiome, saliva, host response) have been investigated, while only by consolidating these and assessing their multidimensional interactions should we be able to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the ecosystem, which in turn could serve to develop rational schemes to maintain health. Adapting such a ‘system approach' comes with major practical challenges for the entire research field and will require vast resources and large-scale multidisciplinary collaborations.

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“…The number of children with decayed primary teeth is estimated to be 621 million (9.02% of the population), which indicates that dental caries is a common and prevalent burden throughout life. Recent studies revealed that dental caries incidence is not confined to children, but occurs in adults and older people (Broadbent, Foster Page, Thomson, & Poulton, ; Kassebaum et al., ). A prospective cohort study of community‐dwelling elderly revealed that dental caries is common among older people, on both the coronal and root surface (Murray Thomson, ).…”

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confidence: 99%