Water fluoridation and ethnic inequities in dental caries profiles of New Zealand children aged 5 and 12–13 years: analysis of national cross-sectional registry databases for the decade 2004–2013

Table 1 Annual estimated numbers of 5-year old children in New Zealand and numbers receiving a dental examination – overall and partitioned by Māori and non-Māori ethnic groupings

^aWest Coast DHB unable to provide dmft data by ethnicity; ^bWest Coast DHB unable to provide dmft data by ethnicity; ^cTairawhiti DHB did not supply dmft data and Auckland DHB introduced a new data system which caused major disruption to data collection and reporting; ^dHutt Valley DHB and Capital & Coast DHB both excluded a small numbers of children for whom fluoridation status was not reported and Southern DHB did not report data for the 1 January – 20 February period and fluoridation status incomplete for most of the year

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