Oral Health inside - Communities and Local Government

Comparison with the National Children’s Dental Health Survey in 1984Table 10 reports the total number of children examined in each age group, percentage ofchildren with at least one permanent incisor affected by trauma (excluding enamel fractures anddiscolouration) and percentage of children with traumatised teeth which were untreated in eachage group in the NSCDH, 1984 6 and the 2002 survey in the Republic of Ireland.Table 10Number and percentage of children and adolescents (8-, 12- and 15-year-olds) with at leastone permanent incisor affected by trauma (excluding enamel fractures and discolouration)and percentage of children with traumatised teeth that were untreated in each of the agegroups in 1984 and in 2002Age Year of study Number of children % of children with % of children withgroup examined traumatic injury traumatised teethuntreated8 1984 2378 1.7 30.42002 3726 1.6 47.812 1984 2340 6.4 37.22002 3859 6.4 38.915 1984 2453 8.7 47.42002 3482 9.3 42.0Again comparison of the 2002 figures with the National Survey of Children’s Dental Health in1984 shows that the percentage of children with traumatised teeth which are untreated stillremains high for all age groups in 2002.Concluding commentThis report presents the preliminary results of the clinical oral examination of the North SouthSurvey of Children’s Oral Health 2002. These and additional clinical data will be furtheranalysed along side the demographic, questionnaire and photographic data recorded in thesurvey. The findings of these analysis will be presented in the final report in 2004.42 Children’s Oral Health in Ireland 2002