Prevalence of Caries among School Children in Saudi Arabia: A Meta-Analysis.

Advances in Preventive Medicine Pub Date : 2022-09-05 eCollection Date: 2022-01-01 DOI:10.1155/2022/7132681

Tasneem R Adam, Abdullah I Al-Sharif, Aretas Tonouhewa, Abdulaziz A AlKheraif

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Introduction: Children's dental health has become the primary concern, because of the increase in the prevalence of caries amongst school children in Saudi Arabia. Therefore, a meta-analysis was conducted to assess the prevalence and severity of dental caries among school children in Saudi Arabia.

Method: A systematic search of Scopus, ISI Web of Science, EMBASE, Saudi digital library, Google Scholar, and MEDLINE via Ovid for cross-sectional studies with healthy participants between 5and -15 years. Two authors independently extracted the prevalence of caries. With 95% confidence intervals (CIs) using a random-effects model, we calculated caries prevalence.

Results: Dental caries prevalence data were extracted from 18 cross-sectional studies (n = 56,327 children). The pooled estimate for the caries prevalence among 5-7 years' children was 84% (95% CI: 0.81-0.87%; I² = 91%) while among 12-15 years' children was 72% (95% CI: 0.63-0.79; I ² = 96.2%). Discussion. In this systematic review, the summary estimate of the prevalence of dental caries among children of 5-7 years and 12-15 years were 84% and 72%, respectively. Further research is required to identify approaches for preventing and treating dental caries in schoolchildren.

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沙特阿拉伯学龄儿童龋齿患病率：元分析。

导言：由于沙特阿拉伯学龄儿童龋齿患病率的增加，儿童的牙齿健康已成为首要关注的问题。因此，我们进行了一项荟萃分析，以评估沙特阿拉伯学龄儿童龋齿的流行率和严重程度：方法：通过 Ovid 对 Scopus、ISI Web of Science、EMBASE、沙特数字图书馆、Google Scholar 和 MEDLINE 进行了系统搜索，以了解 5-15 岁健康参与者的横断面研究。两位作者独立提取了龋齿患病率。我们使用随机效应模型计算出龋齿患病率的 95% 置信区间 (CI)：我们从 18 项横断面研究（n = 56,327 名儿童）中提取了龋齿流行率数据。5-7岁儿童龋齿患病率的汇总估计值为84%（95% CI：0.81-0.87%；I2 = 91%），而12-15岁儿童的龋齿患病率为72%（95% CI：0.63-0.79；I2 = 96.2%）。讨论在这篇系统综述中，5-7 岁儿童和 12-15 岁儿童的龋齿流行率估计值分别为 84% 和 72%。要确定预防和治疗学龄儿童龋齿的方法，还需要进一步的研究。

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