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  • Title: [The orodental status of the French population 6-15 years of age].
    Author: Cahen PM, Turlot JC, Frank RM, Obry-Musset AM.
    Journal: J Biol Buccale; 1989 Mar; 17(1):31-8. PubMed ID: 2786872.
    Abstract:
    A representative sample of 19,366 schoolchildren of France, aged 6 to 15 years, was randomly selected. Examiner teams from each of the 16 Faculties of Dental Surgery of France were trained together to be well calibrated. The dental caries prevalence was determined in each age group using the dft, dfs, DMFT and DMFS indices. The periodontal conditions were measured using the plaque index (Silness and Löe, 1964), the calculus index (Marthaler, 1966) and the gingival index (Löe and Silness, 1963). The mean DMFT index increased from 0.5 at age 6 to 6.9 at age 15 years. This index increased by 0.5 from one age group to the next until age 10, and from 1.0 from age 11 to age 15. The DMFS index increased from 0.8 to 13.0 between 6 and 15 years of age. In each age group, the numbers of carious and untreated surfaces were very similar to the number of filled surfaces. The percentage of children with caries-free permanent teeth decreased from 78.5% to 8.2% between 6 and 15 years of age. A direct relation was observed between the caries indices and the socio-economic category of the parents. The senior management and private professions presented the lowest indices.
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