STUDIES ON THE INCIDENCE AND CAUSE OF DENTAL DEFECTS IN CHILDREN
VI. PITS AND FISSURES
MARCU BRUCKER D.D.S.1
1 Dental Division, Bureau of Health Education and Service, Board of Education, Newark, N. J.
From clinical studies and field observations as well as from statistical studies of the incidence of caries in the first permanent molars of 5,933 children it appears erroneous to assume that "99 out of every 100 fissures will have to be filled some day" (Hyatt), and that "98 per cent of the first permanent molars do become carious" (Bodecker), and that 95 per cent of these teeth are defective on eruption (9). The evidence revealed in these studies does not point in that direction.
Submitted on March 17, 1943
Revised on June 10, 1943
