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Mahoozi, T.
Kariesinzidenz bei Kindern mit Migrationshintergrund und unterschiedlichen sozialen Schichten
Zahnmedizin; [ Diplomarbeit ] Graz Medical University; 2016. pp.
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- Advisor:
- Ebeleseder Kurt
- Glockner Karl
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- Abstract:
- Abstract Caries is one of the most common chronic diseases worldwide, from which children suffer from. Already in 1981 the WHO published goals in their "six oral health goals": this concept demands that the DMFT-rate of twelve year old children should shrink below 3 and that the amount of caries-free children should rise up to more than 50 per cent. The publishing of the concept was issued, since caries not only represents a health issue but also an economic one. After those goals were reached by Austria, like most of the other western industrial countries, the WHO republished a new model, containing new goals, that have to be achieved until 2020. Despite the positive evolution, thanks to the WHO goals, caries-polarisation within population-groups is growing: a big amount of caries-free children is facing a small percentage of children with high DMFT-levels. This has to change until 2020 and is one of the new WHO goals. More precisely, this small percentage group has to reach a DMFT-rate of less than 3. In this way, the WHO hopes to reduce the caries rate in the population. To be able to match the new goals, prophylactic measures have to be established, also containing the education of the parents, which plays an important part in the process. A high flux of immigrants coming to central Europe since the second half of the XXth century is influencing the statistics mentioned before, because the percentage of children with high caries-rates are very much represented in the second and third generation of the migrants.