Children and young people have healthy teeth

Efforts in child and adolescent dental care is now bearing fruit, and new figures from the Health Protection Agency show that dental health is getting better and better with the country's children and youth. The new figures show that all three of the ten 18-year-old has never felt the dentist's drill into a tooth. In 1990, one out of every ten 18-year-old who had never experienced tooth decay, which required treatment with boron.

Among the 18-year-olds who have been treated tooth decay, most have only been put fillings in up to four tooth surfaces. Again, there is a marked improvement compared to 1990.

For the 15-year-old, it is possible to follow the evolution dating back to 1980/81. Back then, the 15-year average of 13.2 fillings in tooth surfaces. The new figures from the Health Protection Agency show that the corresponding figures in 2009 is 2.33.

Three out of ten children have never been bored in his teeth

Compiled by region is dental health among children and adolescents most in the Capital Region, followed by Region Zealand and NSW. Region North and Region South Denmark occupies the fourth and fifth place.

Dental Association President Susanne Andersen welcomes the positive developments, but warn against downgrade the efforts of child and adolescent dental care.

- I have no doubt that the major prevention efforts in child and adolescent dental care have contributed to children and young people as healthy teeth today. But although the average figures are impressive, there is unfortunately still children who have many cavities. And then we got a new dental health problem: syreskader on tooth enamel due to the increasing consumption of cola and other soft drinks, says Susanne Andersen.

According to dentists President has some kids need to get to the dentist very often, while there are also children with healthy teeth and gums that their dentist is estimated to only having to have a check up every 1-2 years.

- Efforts are now much more targeted and individualized than when sought for all every six months, says Susanne Andersen.

Lower sugar levies gives poorer teeth

It's a bomb in particular children and young people's dental health, sugar levies have decreased every year since 2001. It goes Dental Association President Susanne Andersen, commenting on new data from the Treasury.

- We can see that the portions have become larger over the last ten years and it is hardly unlikely that it has something to do with the gradual tax reductions. Candy bags have become larger, and so is soda bottles. While the largest soft drink bottles, ten years ago contained 1 ½ liters, we are now at 2 liters. And it is a big problem for the teeth. The large bottles deadlines especially children and young people to have a soft bullet and take a sip of it periodically. In this way the teeth of a constant acid bath and the acid in soda can at worst corrode tooth enamel away, says Susanne Andersen.

Studies have shown that every 7 teenager to a greater or lesser degree has syreskader on tooth enamel.

In addition to acid damage is sugar in sodas and candy one of the major culprits when it comes to tooth decay. The tendency has been for many years, the Danes have fewer and fewer cavities, but Susanne Andersen is afraid that the positive trend will stop if the intake of sugar continues to rise.

Details are available from Dental Association by contacting the Communications Officer Falcon on May 70 25 77 11 or Communications Claus Jorgensen 70 25 77 11 or 21 26 56 98th

Smoking cessation changes the bacterial flora in the mouth

Oral bacterial flora changes in people who quit smoking were

American researchers now believe to have found a reason why people who quit smoking have a better dental health. Acknowledge your tobacco will happen some changes in oral bacterial profile. Even after six months is a significant difference in bacterial flora, and scientists believe that it is a cause of some of the improvements in dental health, as we see in people who quit.

Read more in Tandlægebladet No. 1 2010 or www.tandlaegebladet.dk

Dental health among Greenlandic young children alarming

Dental health among Greenlandic children and young people are so poor that toddlers as young as one year of age are milk teeth pulled out.

"We can often remove bad teeth due to advanced caries in young children," says dentist George Ramstedt Jensen Tasiilaq.

"If you do not fit in his teeth, you can get pneumonia, and this goes not only beyond the teeth but also the rest of the body are affected," said dental assistant Johanne Hansen KNR.

A few years ago the regular dental rinse with fluoride stopped in Tasiilaq, and children and young people have not had regular dental examinations or training in toothbrushing.
Tasiilaq is planning to offer all school children have regular dental examinations and instruction in brushing. And now reintroduce the regular fluorine rinses in children.

Nationwide cariesstrategi
The Greenland Home Rule launched else in 2006 a nationwide strategy against caries called Cariesstrategi Greenland from 2008 to 2012 , as part of the Public Health Programme Inuuneritta . The strategic plan aimed, among other things by intensifying efforts for prevention of caries, and it should be mandatory by 1 January 2008 with systematic dental treatment for the population, or at least a systematic dental care for children and young people, if there should be sufficient capacity or finances to the entire population.

The National Tandbørstedag
As a direct cause of the poor dental health among the population of Greenland, introduced the Greenland Home Rule, 18 april 2007, the first country in the world, a national tandbørstedag. National Tandbørstedag in Greenland is 18 april.

Greenland National Tandbørstedag, 18 april - Photo: Fair Booklet on National tandbørstedag