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Dental Caries Experience and Tobacco Use in 19-year-old Croatian Army Recruits

Tomislav Badel ; University of Zagreb, School of Dental Medicine, Department of Removable Prosthodontics, Zagreb, Croatia
Ivana Savić Pavičin ; University of Zagreb School of Dental Medicine, Department of Dental Anthropology, Zagreb, Croatia
Andreja Jelinić Carek ; University of Zagreb, School of Dental Medicine, Department of Fixed Prosthodontics, Zagreb, Croatia
Sanja Šegović ; University of Zagreb, School of Medicine, Department of Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics, Zagreb, Croatia


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str. 677-680

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The aim of this study is to investigate caries prevalence and smoking habit in the population of 19-year-old Croatian male recruits. Dental examination of 505 male recruits was conducted in 2001 in the military centre in Koprivnica. Caries status was described by the FS-T (Filled and Sound Teeth) index and DMFT (Decayed, Missing and Filled Teeth) index. Mean DMFT scores were 7.32 and FST 23.56. There was a significant statistical difference in comparison of smoking habits depending on the reason to visit the dentist (p=0.001). The subjects who do not smoke tobacco have less decayed teeth (DT index with p<0.001), and more teeth with fillings and/or sound teeth (FT with p=0.005 and FST with p=0.004). There is no statistically significant difference for the DMFT (p=0.657) and MT (p=0.703). In conclusion, it showed that FS-T is a more appropriate index for describing variation in the population with higher caries experience. In the population of Croatian recruits, there were an astonishing 58.6% of smokers.

Ključne riječi

dental caries; DMFT; epidemiology; FS-T; recruits; smoking

Hrčak ID:

127607

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/127607

Datum izdavanja:

30.6.2014.

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