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Oral health of recruits of the Croatian Army in the years 1998 and 2000

The subject of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of caries at recruits comparing the years 1998 and 2000. The oral health has been investigated applying the DMFT and FST index in the military dental polyclinic in Koprivnica, Croatia. 190 randomly chosen recruits were examined in 1998 and 248 recruits in 2000. The subjects were divided according to their age and residence environment (urban, rural). The methods of non parameters statistics were used due to the abnormal data distribution. It has been stated that in 1998 2.6% of recruits had healthy teeth. In 2000 4% of recruits had healthy teeth. The median value of the DMFT index were in 1998 7, and in 2000 6. In both investigations the median values of the FST index were 25. A statistically significant difference was found was to the residence environment and age, only in the investigation of 1998. Totally untreated teeth (treatment=0%) were present at 18% recruits in 1998, and 28% in 2000. Treated teeth (treatment=100%) had 26.8% recruits in 1998, and 18.6% in 2000. In both investigations of caries at recruits has been stated bad oral health, which indicates more effective preventive measures in childhood and in adolescent age.

epidemiology; cariec; DMFT; recruits

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