Introduction: Dental caries by far is the most prevalent concern of the preadolescents and adolescents in dental clinics. Despite the provision of local fluoride, the occlusal surfaces of teeth are susceptible to dental caries. Pit and fissure sealant therapy is a preventive method to decrease dental caries in permanent teeth. The present study aimed to evaluate the success of fissure sealant treatments of first molar teeth, at 3, 6 and 12 months follow-ups.
Materials And Methods: Sixty-five children were randomly selected. The subjects had already received fissure sealants in the department of public health dentistry. Demographic data, including age and gender, sealant failure and the type of failure were recorded in the relevant checklists. Feigal criteria were used to evaluate the success or failure of fissure sealant treatments.
Results: Overall success rate was 74.3% for 1 year. Evaluation of the failure rate showed that at the 3-month interval, 20.6% of the sealants exhibited failure (57.1% due to margin discoloration and 42.9% due to lack of margin adaptation). 28.6% of the sealants failed at the 6-month (75% due to marginal discoloration and 25% due to anatomical form) and 41.2% failed at the 12-month interval (57.1% due to marginal discoloration and 42.9% due to the lack of margin adaptation).
Conclusion: The total failure rate of fissure sealant failures after 1 year was 27.7%. The most frequent reason for the failure of fissure sealants was marginal discoloration.
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Clin Oral Investig
December 2024
Department of Conservative Dentistry and Periodontology, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany.
Objective: This cross-sectional study aimed to investigate the use, quality, and caries-preventive effects of fissure sealants (FSs) in 8- to 10-year-olds with and without molar-incisor hypomineralization (MIH).
Materials And Methods: A total of 5,418 children (2,692 males, 2,726 females) were examined via standard instruments (dental mirrors, CPI probes, adequate lighting, mobile examination tables, and air syringes) and methods for the recording of caries (DMFT index, WHO method) and FSs. The classification of MIH followed the recommendations of the European Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (EAPD).
Int J Paediatr Dent
December 2024
Oral Public Health Department, Dental Research Center, Dental Research Institute, Dental School, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Aim: This study employed the willingness-to-pay (WTP) method to investigate parents' valuation of fissure sealant (FS) and fluoride varnish (FV) therapy.
Design: This cross-sectional analytical study was conducted in 2021 among 100 parents. The maximum WTP were collected using payment cards, an originally developed validated and reliable questionnaire, educational videos, and a hypothetical scenario.
Evid Based Dent
December 2024
Faculty of Dental Sciences, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Cureus
October 2024
Epidemiology, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University, Indianapolis, USA.
J Clin Pediatr Dent
November 2024
Department of Dental Public Health, College of Dentistry, King Abdulaziz University, 21589 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Access to preventive dental services, such as dental sealants, varies based on several factors, including insurance coverage. The aim of this study was to examine the association between different types of insurance and dental sealant placement among US children. Data from the National Survey of Children Health (NSCH) cycle 2018 was analyzed.
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