Prevalence of developmental dental hard-tissue anomalies and association with caries and oral hygiene status of children in Southwestern, Nigeria

摘要: Developmental dental hard tissue anomalies are often associated with oral health problems. This study determined the clinical prevalence of developmental in permanent dentition children resident southwestern Nigeria and its association caries poor hygiene status. was a cross-sectional recruiting 1565 school children, 12 to 15 year old attending schools Ibadan, Oyo State Ile-Ife, Osun State. All eligible participants had examinations conducted determine presence anomalies, The determined. Logistic Poisson regression used between Only 65 (4.2 %) clinically diagnosed anomalies. most prevalent anomaly enamel hypoplasia (2.2 %). More females (p = 0.003) more middle socioeconomic class (p = 0.001) hypoplasia. probability having significantly increased for (APR: 0.07; 95 % CI: 0.03 – 0.12; p = 0.002). insignificantly 0.005; −0.03 0.04; p = 0.08). detectable population chances but not caries. Further studies required understand if is