CHANGES IN THE ORAL HEALTH OF ADULTS FROM TRONDELAG, NORWAY, 1973-1983-1994

Citation
Aa. Schuller et D. Holst, CHANGES IN THE ORAL HEALTH OF ADULTS FROM TRONDELAG, NORWAY, 1973-1983-1994, Community dentistry and oral epidemiology, 26(3), 1998, pp. 201-208
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Dentistry,Oral Surgery & Medicine","Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath
ISSN journal
03015661
Volume
26
Issue
3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
201 - 208
Database
ISI
SICI code
0301-5661(1998)26:3<201:CITOHO>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to describe the changes in the oral healt h of adults from Trondelag, Norway over two decades (1973-1983-1994), from both a quasi-longitudinal and a time-lag perspective. Study parti cipants were selected by random sampling in 1973, 1983 and 1994 (n=175 9, n=3195, n=2341). Data were collected by epidemiological registratio ns and questionnaires. Oral health was measured by the additive DMF in dex. The number of decayed teeth was low in all age groups in 1994. Th ere was a reduction in the number of filled teeth from 1983 to 1994 in the time-lag perspective in the youngest age group and the urban midd le-aged group. The rural middle-aged adults and the older adults showe d more filled teeth in 1994 than in 1983. In a quasi-longitudinal pers pective, no significant changes in the 1960 birth cohort and the 1939- 48 urban birth cohort were shown from 1983 to 1994, while the 1930-38 birth cohort and 1939-48 rural birth cohort acquired more filled surfa ces during this period. There are now at least two different oral heal th populations of adults. The younger with the potential to carry oral health benefits into old age, and an elderly population burdened with extensive treatment but keeping their natural teeth.