Prevalence of damaged and missing teeth among women in the southern plains of Nepal: Findings of a simplified assessment tool

To assess the prevalence of missing and damaged teeth among women in the rural southern plains of Nepal using an interviewer-administered tooth assessment module. 21wards in seven Village Development Committees across the Tarai of Nepal in 2015. Resident, married women of children less than 5 years...

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Published in:PloS one 2019-12, Vol.14 (12), p.e0225192-e0225192
Main Authors: Agrawal, Priyanka, Manohar, Swetha, Thorne-Lyman, Andrew L, Angela, K C, Shrestha, Binod, Klemm, Rolf D, West, Keith P
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Age
Agriculture
Biology and Life Sciences
Children & youth
Cross-Sectional Studies
Dental caries
Dental health
Dentifrices
Dentists
Developing countries
Disease prevention
Drugstores
Epidemiology
Female
Food security
Health aspects
Health risk assessment
Health Services Accessibility
Health Surveys
Human nutrition
Humans
International
LDCs
Married women
Medicine and Health Sciences
Middle Aged
Nepal - epidemiology
Nutrition
Nutrition research
Oral cavity
Oral diseases
Oral Hygiene
Pain
Pain management
People and Places
Pharmacy
Physicians
Polls & surveys
Population
Prevalence
Public health
Risk analysis
Risk factors
Rural Population
Teeth
Toiletries industry
Tooth Loss - epidemiology
Womens health
Young Adult
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Summary:To assess the prevalence of missing and damaged teeth among women in the rural southern plains of Nepal using an interviewer-administered tooth assessment module. 21wards in seven Village Development Committees across the Tarai of Nepal in 2015. Resident, married women of children less than 5 years of age or those married in the 2 years prior to the survey, 14 to 49 years of age participating in a mid-year nutrition and health survey in the Tarai region of Nepal. Prevalence of missing and damaged teeth, history of dental problems, oral hygiene practices, access to dental treatment and risk factors for missing and damaged teeth. Of 3007 assessed women, aged 14 to 49 years of age, 22.8% (95% CI: 21.4-24.4) reported ≥ 1 missing or damaged teeth; 81.5% (95% CI 80.1-82.9) reported regularly practicing oral hygiene, typically with standard local dentifrices. Pain or discomfort in the oral cavity in the previous 6 months affected 17.6% of women. Among these, 43.8% had sought treatment from a dental facility, pharmacy or village doctor. Home remedies were commonly applied to relieve pain. Broken and missing teeth are common, affecting nearly one-quarter of adult women of reproductive age in rural Southern Nepal, as assessed by an interviewer-administered questionnaire.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0225192