Trends in dental caries prevalence in 12-year-old schoolchildren between 1976 and 2001 in Bauru, Brazil.

Objective: To evaluate the trends in dental caries prevalence in 12-year-old schoolchildren between 1976 and 2001 in Bauru, Brazil. Study design. An epidemiological survey was performed by trained, calibrated examiners by the same research group in 1976, 1984, 1990, 1995 and 2001, using the decayed, missing and filled teeth (DMFT) index.

[Professional profile analysis of dentists graduated at Bauru dental School - University of São Paulo between 1996 and 2000].

The aims of this study were to determine the professional profile of the 248 dentists graduated at Bauru Dental School - University of Sao Paulo between 1996 and 2000, verify if they accomplish educational and collective measures and determine the level of professional satisfaction. The material was a self-applicable questionnaire containing both multiple choice and open questions. The return rate was 39.

[The relationship between oral habits and malocclusion in preschool children].

Objective: To evaluate the way oral habits and speech problems affect dental occlusion in preschool children.

Methods: A random sample of 2,139 boys and girls aged 3-5 years old was evaluated. The children were enrolled in private and state institutions in the city of Bauru, São Paulo State, Brazil.

[Prevalence of dental caries in children from 0 to 6 years old attending nursery: the influence of socioeconomic factors].

Oral health condition in samples of children from zero to six years old, examined in day nurseries for children from Bauru and S. Paulo County (Brazil) by the caries indicator in primary dentition-dmfs, is assessed. The first group did not receive oral health care where any as the second group received the standard oral care provided by the institution.

Occurrence of primary incisor traumatism in Brazilian children: a house-by-house survey.

This paper presents the results of a house-by-house survey to learn the occurrence of dental injury to the primary teeth in Brazilian children from ten to seventy-two months of age. The study sample comprised 576 children, 295 boys and 281 girls living on sixty-six streets selected in an urban area (Bauru) in the state of Sao Paul, Brazil. There were 174 children (30.