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Predicting Caries in Permanent Teeth from Caries in Primary Teeth: An Eight-year Cohort Study

¹ Department of Basic Science and Craniofacial Biology, New York University College of Dentistry, 345 E. 24th Street, New York, NY 10010-4086, USA; and
² Department of Community and Preventive Dentistry, Peking University School of Stomatology, Beijing, China;

View larger version (67K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure. The overall relative risk (RR) for caries development in the permanent dentition was 2.6 (Pearson chi-square test, p < 0.001), indicating that children who had caries in their primary teeth were nearly three times more likely to develop caries in their permanent teeth than the children who were previously free of caries. This Fig. shows the specific value of RR for caries development in the permanent dentition, depending upon caries presence on different types of primary teeth. Caries on primary maxillary (Max) incisors alone did not have significant predictable value. Caries on mandibular (Man) molars had the highest RR value (1.89) with the highest predictive efficiency (65.8%).

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