[Epidemiological rationale for community-based programs of caries prevention of permanent teeth for children of Samara city].

Introduction: The global objectives of WHO in the field of oral health by 2020 include the average intensity of caries among 12-year-old children no more than 1.5 by the DMFT index. In Samara the value of the DMFT among the adolescents at age 12 is 3.