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：5
页码：1374-1388
DOI：10.9756/INTJECSE/V14I5.136
语种：English
出版社：International Journal of Early Childhood Special Education
摘要：Background: Indian studies have stated that, out of every 10 children 8 suffer from some or the other dental problem and 2 out of 3 kids are ill with dental caries. The children from the low socioeconomic status are the major victims of dental problems due to little awareness on importance of oral health and lack of accessibility to oral health care services. Pit and fissure sealants are used to prevent dental caries. A pilot project was executed in rural areas of Lucknow to seal pit and fissures of 5181 molars in 6-14 years old school children. The success of Pit and Fissure sealants is assessed by its retention. Henceforth, evaluation of the sealant was done 3 months after placement. Materials and Methods: After training and calibration of doctors, a total of 5181 molars were sealed with resin based, pit and fissure sealant, in 1188 children of the age group 6–14 years from various schools situated at different villages at Lucknow Kanpur road. After 3 months of sealant placement, its evaluation was done for retention and sealant was reapplied where the evaluation status of sealant was found to be partially or completely removed. Results: The total number ofdecayed teeth in oral cavity of 1188 children was found to be 1312, in which 642 were permanent while 670 were deciduous teeth and out of 642 permanent decayed teeth, 636 were molars. Out of 5181 molars which were sealed, 3391 molars were evaluated for retention; the remaining 1790 molars could not be evaluated due to large number of absentees on the day of evaluation. On assessment it was found that 89.1% of the molars were caries free with completely retained sealant whereas 9.6% of the molars were caries free with partial loss of sealant. Moreover, 1.09% of molars had complete loss of sealant with/without caries and 0.3% of molars had developed secondary caries. Conclusion: Resin based pit and fissure sealant has good retention property and is effective in prevention of caries in children. Moreover, second molars except mandibular left second molar has better retention rate than first molars.
关键词：Pit and Fissure sealants;Sealant retention;Resin;caries prevention;School Children
