Dental caries status of children and young adult with disabilities attending special needs boarding schools in Kuantan, Pahang

Objectives: The objective of this study is to assess the caries status of children with disabilities attending special needs boarding schools in Kuantan, Pahang. Study design: This cross-sectional study involved 270 children and young adult with hearing, visual or learning disabilities aged betwee...

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Main Authors:	Harun, Nor Asilah, Mohd Kenali, Norzaiti, Ab Halim, Noorhazayti, Mohd Sopie, Sarah Syuhadah, Kamaluddin, Farah Aqilah
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Language:	English
Published:	Zes Rokman Resources 2018
Subjects:	RK529 Oral Surgery-General Works
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spelling	iium-675582019-08-28T08:34:07Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/67558/ Dental caries status of children and young adult with disabilities attending special needs boarding schools in Kuantan, Pahang Harun, Nor Asilah Mohd Kenali, Norzaiti Ab Halim, Noorhazayti Mohd Sopie, Sarah Syuhadah Kamaluddin, Farah Aqilah RK529 Oral Surgery-General Works Objectives: The objective of this study is to assess the caries status of children with disabilities attending special needs boarding schools in Kuantan, Pahang. Study design: This cross-sectional study involved 270 children and young adult with hearing, visual or learning disabilities aged between 5 to 20 years old. The dental caries status was evaluated using the DMFT/dmft indices in accordance with the WHO criteria. Results: All children (100%) between 5-6 years old had caries, 38 (86.4%) children of the 7-12 age group had caries in mix-dentition while 152 (69.1%) children and young adult from the age group of 13-20 had caries in the permanent dentition. From the total number of 270 participants, 196 (72.6%) children and young adult had caries experience with only 74 participants who were caries free. According to the types of disability, the visually disabled group had the highest dmft mean of 4.00 whereas the learning-disabled group had the highest DMFT mean of 2.95. There were no significant differences across the types of disabilities (p>0.05). Conclusion: This study suggests that the disabled student at the special needs boarding schools in Kuantan, Pahang have a high caries prevalence. Zes Rokman Resources 2018-10 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/67558/1/IJCWED5_19.pdf Harun, Nor Asilah and Mohd Kenali, Norzaiti and Ab Halim, Noorhazayti and Mohd Sopie, Sarah Syuhadah and Kamaluddin, Farah Aqilah (2018) Dental caries status of children and young adult with disabilities attending special needs boarding schools in Kuantan, Pahang. International Journal for Studies on Children, Women, Elderly And Disabled, 5. pp. 191-195. ISSN 0128-309X http://www.ijcwed.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/IJCWED5_19.pdf
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spellingShingle	RK529 Oral Surgery-General Works Harun, Nor Asilah Mohd Kenali, Norzaiti Ab Halim, Noorhazayti Mohd Sopie, Sarah Syuhadah Kamaluddin, Farah Aqilah Dental caries status of children and young adult with disabilities attending special needs boarding schools in Kuantan, Pahang
description	Objectives: The objective of this study is to assess the caries status of children with disabilities attending special needs boarding schools in Kuantan, Pahang. Study design: This cross-sectional study involved 270 children and young adult with hearing, visual or learning disabilities aged between 5 to 20 years old. The dental caries status was evaluated using the DMFT/dmft indices in accordance with the WHO criteria. Results: All children (100%) between 5-6 years old had caries, 38 (86.4%) children of the 7-12 age group had caries in mix-dentition while 152 (69.1%) children and young adult from the age group of 13-20 had caries in the permanent dentition. From the total number of 270 participants, 196 (72.6%) children and young adult had caries experience with only 74 participants who were caries free. According to the types of disability, the visually disabled group had the highest dmft mean of 4.00 whereas the learning-disabled group had the highest DMFT mean of 2.95. There were no significant differences across the types of disabilities (p>0.05). Conclusion: This study suggests that the disabled student at the special needs boarding schools in Kuantan, Pahang have a high caries prevalence.
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author	Harun, Nor Asilah Mohd Kenali, Norzaiti Ab Halim, Noorhazayti Mohd Sopie, Sarah Syuhadah Kamaluddin, Farah Aqilah
author_facet	Harun, Nor Asilah Mohd Kenali, Norzaiti Ab Halim, Noorhazayti Mohd Sopie, Sarah Syuhadah Kamaluddin, Farah Aqilah
author_sort	Harun, Nor Asilah
title	Dental caries status of children and young adult with disabilities attending special needs boarding schools in Kuantan, Pahang
title_short	Dental caries status of children and young adult with disabilities attending special needs boarding schools in Kuantan, Pahang
title_full	Dental caries status of children and young adult with disabilities attending special needs boarding schools in Kuantan, Pahang
title_fullStr	Dental caries status of children and young adult with disabilities attending special needs boarding schools in Kuantan, Pahang
title_full_unstemmed	Dental caries status of children and young adult with disabilities attending special needs boarding schools in Kuantan, Pahang
title_sort	dental caries status of children and young adult with disabilities attending special needs boarding schools in kuantan, pahang
publisher	Zes Rokman Resources
publishDate	2018
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/67558/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/67558/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/67558/1/IJCWED5_19.pdf
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Dental caries status of children and young adult with disabilities attending special needs boarding schools in Kuantan, Pahang

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