Efficacy of cleaning the teeth by fluoride solution of 0.2% in school age for the teeth decay
- Author:
Thanh Le Nguyen
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
fluoride
- MeSH:
Fluorides;
DMF Index;
Tooth
- From:Journal of Vietnamese Medicine
1998;230(11):126-127
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
1. Fluor can reduce the progression of carious diseases when SMT> 3. While the index of permanent teeth carious of 12-year-old pupils in the North of Vietnam is 0.06, Fluor has no effectiveness to reduce the progression of carious to permanent teeth, it has effectiveness only to milk teeth, (SMT= 3.5) 3. There has been already one auxiliary dentist in primary school named Quang Trung in charge of dental hygiene education, regular scalling.. for school children these achievements do not however meet the expected results we actually need.
