期刊名称：International Journal of Early Childhood Special Education
电子版ISSN：1308-5581
出版年度：2022
卷号：14
期号：2
页码：1077-1087
DOI：10.9756/INT-JECSE/V14I2.089
语种：English
出版社：International Journal of Early Childhood Special Education
摘要：Dental fluorosis is a condition,which leads to specific interruption in tooth formation,mineralisation in which enamel formation is altered and hypo mineralized.The aim of the study is to know the prevalence of dental fluorosis among the patients visiting a university hospital in Chennai,Tamilnadu. It is a retrospective institution based study that was conducted by evaluating and analysing 1865 patient case records visiting a dental hospital from June(2019) to July(2021) who had signs of dental fluorosis. Patients who were screened with Dean’s Fluorosis index were taken.Data like age, gender, type of dental fluorosis were taken. Ethical approval was obtained by the institutional ethical board at Saveetha University. The data was examined by two examiners. Data was recorded in Microsoft Excel and exported to the statistical package of social science for windows (SPSS) and subjected to statistical analysis. The present study shows that fluorosis was more prevalent in males and people in the age group 21-30.It was found that 38.73% people had mild fluorosis.
