PREVALENCE OF DENTAL CARIES AMONG SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN ATTENDING HOUSING ESTATE PRIMARY SCHOO. ABAKPA NIKE ENUGU, ENUGU STATE
Abstract
ABSTRACT
The general purpose of this research was to find out the prevalence of caries among pupils at
housing estate primary school Abakpa Nike Enugu. Total number of 120 pupils of age 6:14 years
attending the primary school were examined and interviewed personally by the researcher. During
this research work, it was observed that most of the pupils had no knowledge about dental care,
but majority of them was free from dental caries from the data collected. It was observed that
50(41.66%) have dental caries and 70(58.33%) have not. Therefore, after calculating the test of
hypothesis it was observed that there is no relationship between the age selected pupils because
the prevalence was very low. Finally the point prevalence of dental caries was recorded with an
average DMFT of 0.333, the result shows a very low prevalence of caries with it prevalence rate.
That there is no much prevalence of dental caries among the primary school pupils in housing
estate primary school ,Abakpa Nike Enugu EAST local government of Enugu state.
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