The prevalence of dental caries among Egyptian children and adolescences and its association with age, socioeconomic status, dietary habits and other risk factors. A cross-sectional study

Name	World Continuing Education Alliance
Activity Title	The prevalence of dental caries among Egyptian children and adolescences and its association with age, socioeconomic status, dietary habits and other risk factors. A cross-sectional study
Details	Dental caries is a major public health issue and it is the most widespread chronic disease. In children, dental caries pattern depends on the timing of tooth eruption as well as harmful dietary habit. Therefore, age is considered as an important factor that affects dental caries prevalence in children. It has been estimated that about 60% to 90% of children at school age suffer from this chronic ailment. Despite the high prevalence of dental caries in the Egyptian population, only a few epidemiological studies of dental caries among Egyptians have been published. Moreover, most of the available data, are grey literature which are not available on common search engines. The prevalence of dental caries should be assessed continuously to plan and implement an efficient children oral health agenda and awareness programs for parents and school teachers in order to improve oral health. Therefore, this study was conducted to elucidate the prevalence of dental caries among Egyptian children an...
Competence	Public Health
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Event Time	05:45 PM
Location	World Continuing Education Alliance eLearning System
Cost (UGX)	0
CPD Points	1