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Water fluoridation and ethnic inequities in dental caries profiles of New Zealand children aged 5 and 12-13 years: analysis of national cross-sectional registry databases for the decade 2004-2013 (2016)

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http://hdl.handle.net/10092/12862

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s12903-016-0180-5

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University of Canterbury. School of Health Sciences
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Schluter, P.J.
Lee, M.
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Background: Gross and important inequities have historically existed in the oral health profiles of New Zealand children. Following the New Zealand Government's strategic oral health vision, launched in 2006, nationally collected information from 2004 to 2013 was used to analyze patterns in the prevalence of no obvious decay experience (caries-free) and mean decayed-missing-filled teeth indices over time and by community water fluoridation (CWF) and ethnic classifications in New Zealand children aged 5 years and in school year 8 (generally aged 12-13 years).

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Schluter, P.J., Lee, M. (2016) Water fluoridation and ethnic inequities in dental caries profiles of New Zealand children aged 5 and 12-13 years: analysis of national cross-sectional registry databases for the decade 2004-2013. BMC Oral Health, 16, pp. 21.
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32 - Biomedical and clinical sciences::3203 - Dentistry::320303 - Dental therapeutics, pharmacology and toxicology
11 - Medical and Health Sciences::1117 - Public Health and Health Services::111704 - Community Child Health
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© 2016 Schluter and Lee. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.