Oral Disease in Yeshiva Students
KURT A. ROSENZWEIG 1 and
ANSELM LANGER 1
1 Department of Preventive Dentistry, Hebrew University and Hadassah School of Dentistry, Founded by the Alpha-Omega Fraternity, Jerusalem and Malben-JDC, Tel-Aviv
A representative sample of Yeshiva students, including 414 individuals between five and fifty years of age, was examined as to caries experience, gingivitis, periodontal disease, and malocclusion. No statistically significant differences with regard to origin were found in any of these conditions. With regard to incidence of caries, this group followed the same pattern as the general population of the country. Gingivitis was much higher than in comparable age groups of the same origin. Periodontal disease was found to the same extent as in comparable groups of high educational status in Birmingham, Alabama.
Submitted on December 16, 1960
