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The Journal of The Japan Health Care Dental Association
The Journal of The Japan Health Care Dental Association Vol.6 No.1, 2004
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Debrief Report on Periodic Preventive Management of Dental Disease at Sugiyama Dental Office: The effect of caries preventive management performed in the author's patients who visited there over 5 years and were under 19-year-old at the final maintenance
Seiichi Sugiyama
We think that it might require close to 20 years to assess how the periodic preventive management works to control dental disease, if it was performed in our dental office. Then, 89 study subjects, aged from 11 to 19-yea-old, from his patients who visited him periodically over 5 years for maintenance and were under 19-year-old. 89 subjects were divided into three age groups: 11-13, 14-16, and 17-19. With the data of the change in DMF value from each group, we planned to conjecture the effect of caries preventive management when it is performed in the subjects to the age of 18. Another evaluation was made on the two groups divided by the number of maintenance received. From the data obtained, we conjecture that the periodic preventive management may work to control the increase of DMF score to the average of 2 at the age of 20, if patients visit us periodically from 6 to 20-year-old and receive our maintenance.
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