[Longterm study of the effectiveness of different dental care programs in school children].

Abstract

The caries prevalence was examined in children from the first to the tenth grade in Rostock and Krakow between 1974 and 1988. In Krakow, a town with a preventive orientated dental care program, a significance caries reduction was found. Therefore there is an increase of health and an improvement of oral situation for the children on the way to the goals of WHO for oral health by the year 2000.