Table 2 ‘Time to first restoration’: patient characteristics, results, specifications
Patient characteristics and results per dental practice (DP) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Patients | DP #1 | DP #2 | DP #3 | DP #4 | All DPs |
Per socioeconomic status | |||||
- High | 27% | 64% | 85% | 64% | 58% |
- Middle | 12% | 8% | 9% | 6% | 9% |
- Low | 60% | 27% | 5% | 29% | 33% |
- Unknown | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | |
n | 179 | 109 | 131 | 181 | 600 |
Results, patients | |||||
Restoration-free on the age of: | |||||
- 2 years | 99% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
- 3 years | 97% | 99% | 100% | 99% | 99% |
- 4 years | 87% | 94% | 95% | 92% | 91% |
- 5 years | 73% | 84% | 91% | 79% | 81% |
- 6 years | 53% | 72% | 81% | 66% | 66% |
- 7 years | 42% | 65% | 76% | 60% | 59% |
There was a difference in restoration-free seven-year-olds between the dental practices (p < 0.01, Chi-square test). Overall, there was a difference in restoration-free seven-year-olds between the socioeconomic groups in all dental practices (p < 0.01, Chi-square test); in the highest socioeconomic group there were more children with a restoration-free dentition and less in the lowest socioeconomic group. | |||||
Specifications of measure | |||||
Data source | Clinical records dental practices | ||||
Assessment based on | Restorations | ||||
Inclusion criteria | • Children born between July 1st 2006 and July 1st 2007 (7-year-olds) • Registered in the dental practice between 2010 and 2014 • At least one oral health examination a year • No caries during the first visit and the first half year after the first visit • Primary teeth | ||||