Community Dental Health
- Cover Date:
- June 2014
- Print ISSN:
- 0265 539X
- Vol:
- 31
- Issue:
- 2
CDH June14 3311-Kruger pp85-90.pdf
Community Dental Health (2014) 31, 85–90 Received 15 October 2013; Accepted 19 December 2013
© BASCD 2014 doi:10.1922/CDH_3311Kruger06
Predicting geographically distributed adult dental decay in the greater Auckland region of New Zealand
Objective: To model the geographic distribution of current (and treated) dental decay on a high-resolution geographic basis for the Auckland region of New Zealand. Basic research design: The application of matrix-based mathematics to modelling adult dental disease-based on known population risk profiles to provide a detailed map of the dental caries distribution for the greater Auckland region. Results: Of the 29 million teeth in adults in the region some 1.2 million (4%) are suffering decay whilst 7.2 million (25%) have previously suffered decay and are now restored. Conclusions: The model provides a high-resolution picture of where the disease burden lies geographically and presents to health planners a method for developing future service plans.
Key words: dental caries, distribution, public health infomatics, Auckland, New Zealand
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- £15.00
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- Page Start
- 85
- Page End
- 90
- Authors
- C.M. Rocha, E. Kruger, R. Whyman, M. Tennant
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