Title
A Systematic Review of the Caries Prevalence Among Children Living in Chernobyl Fallout Countries
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1-2019
Publication Title
Scientific Reports
Publisher
Nature Research
First page number:
1
Last page number:
10
Abstract
The present study analyzed the data concerning the caries prevalence in children born and permanently residing in Chernobyl fallout areas. Setting forth to evaluate if differences regarding the caries prevalence can be observed compared to non-contaminated sites of affected East European countries. Methods used to assess the caries prevalence were limited to DMFT/dmft (decayed, missing and filled teeth) for the primary and the permanent dentitions. The databases PubMed, EMBASE/Ovid, Cochrane Library, Scopus, and eLIBRARY were consulted for the electronic literature search...(Please see text for full abstrast)
Disciplines
Dental Public Health and Education
File Format
File Size
155 KB
Language
English
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Repository Citation
Wolgin, M.,
Filina, N.,
Dvornyk, V.,
Lynch, E.,
Kielbassa, A. M.
(2019).
A Systematic Review of the Caries Prevalence Among Children Living in Chernobyl Fallout Countries.
Scientific Reports
1-10.
Nature Research.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39755-5