The prevalence and common risk indicators of root caries and oral health service utilization pattern among adults, a cross-sectional study

View article
PeerJ

Main article text

 

Introduction

Materials and Methods

Study design

Data measurement

Bias

Statistic methods

Results

Prevalence of DFroot, Droot, and Froot

Common risk indicators of root caries

Oral health service utilization and root caries prevalence

Discussion

Limitations

Conclusions

Supplemental Information

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Weixing Chen conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Tianer Zhu conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Denghui Zhang performed the experiments, prepared figures and/or tables, and approved the final draft.

Human Ethics

The following information was supplied relating to ethical approvals (i.e., approving body and any reference numbers):

The Oral Health Survey scheme in Zhejiang was approved by Stomatological Ethics Committee of the Chinese Stomatological Association and the Ethics Committee of Stomatology Hospital Affiliated to Zhejiang University School of Medicine (No. 2014-003).

Data Availability

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The raw data are available in the Supplemental File.

Funding

This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

1 Citation 1,031 Views 42 Downloads

Your institution may have Open Access funds available for qualifying authors. See if you qualify

Publish for free

Comment on Articles or Preprints and we'll waive your author fee
Learn more

Five new journals in Chemistry

Free to publish • Peer-reviewed • From PeerJ
Find out more