The Role of Vitamin D in the Control of Dental Caries in Children

Vitamin D and dental caries in controlled clinical trials: systematic review and meta-analysis

“…Fifty‐three references were evaluated in detail, 24 of which were excluded because of the absence of incident caries outcome statistics, the lack of assignment to vitamin D by the investigator for the purpose of caries control, or the lack of controls . Twenty‐nine references remained, which included articles, abstracts, and excerpts of grant reports . In one reference that reported on three CCTs, one CCT without reported follow‐up time was eliminated.…”

“…Five of these 13 CCTs assigned patients to vitamin D on the basis of health awareness or caries experience . Eleven of the 24 CCTs assigned clusters of patient to treatment, with the clusters being institutions ( n = 2), cottages ( n = 6), classrooms ( n = 1), schools ( n = 1), or unspecified groupings ( n = 1) None of the 11 cluster CCTs reported assigning vitamin D on the basis of health awareness or caries experience. One cluster CCT reported blinded vitamin D assignment towards disease status .…”

“…Comparability in baseline caries score between intervention and control groups could be evaluated for 23 of 38 treatment comparisons, and significant baseline inequality in caries experience was present for 4 vitamin D estimates (Appendix S3) . The quality score ranged from 6 to 21, with a mean of 14.8 (standard deviation, 4.0).…”

La propagande en faveur d'une consommation accrue du lait. Le lait comme source de vitamine D en hiver

“…On a pu constater de cette façon, que cet indice est beaucoup plus faible pendant les mois les plus ensoleillés. « McBEATH et ZUCKER [10], de l'Université Columbia, ont éga-lement étudié la 'variation saisonnière des cas de carie en procédant à l'examen de plus de 800 enfants, vivant dans des institutions. Certains groupes de ces enfants recevaient en dehors de la nourriture normale de l'établissement dans lequel ils vivaient une ration supplémentaire et on' a pu constater que les' cas de carie étaient moins fréquents chez les enfants suralimentés.…”

Mean Annual Hours of Sunshine and the Incidence of Dental Caries

“…t It seems worth while to evaluate such extensive data in relation to other factors than those indicated in the Bulletin. The data available on seasonable incidence of dental caries 2,3 suggest the interesting problem of ascertaining whether or not a correlation can be established between caries incidence and hours of sunshine available per annum. The U. S. Weather Bureau data on hours of sunshine serve as a reliable source of information on the latter variable.4 + The present report covers only a small portion of the projected plan, namely, the [12][13][14] From the original data, the caries incidence per 100 children was determined by totalling the numbers of fillings in the temporary and permanent teeth, the numbers of cavities in the temporary and permanent teeth, and the numbers of extracted teeth, as reported by Mills.5 The number of individuals in all 482 community groups was then arranged in a frequency table having class-intervals of 50 cavities per 100 boys (Table I, Column A).…”