The aims were to estimate dental treatment needs of 15-16-year-olds
in Lithuania and to relate a number of background factors such as
gender, urbanization and residency to possible differences in dental
treatment needs. A total of 885 adolescents in 22 randomly pre-selected
areas were clinically examined. The following criteria of dental
treatment needs were used: tooth with primary caries, secondary caries,
tooth which needs a non-operative treatment, tooth with trauma, which
needs a restorative treatment, and tooth which needs either an
endodontic treatment, a crown or an extraction. Only 7.7 % of all
participants had all their teeth sound. The treatment due to primary
caries was the most required dental treatment modality among Lithuanian
adoles- cents. Significantly fewer teeth required treatment due to other
aforementioned reasons. Significant differ- ences in most dental
treatment needs between boys and girls were found, whereas in relation
to urbanization and area of residency the differences were less
pronounced.
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