Clinical Study
Dental Treatment Needs in Vancouver Inner-City Elementary School-Aged Children
Table 4
Dental treatment needs with regard to sociodemographic factors#.
| | | Dental treatment needs (deciduous and permanent dentitions combined) | | | One-surface filling | Two-surface filling | Three-surface filling | Four-surface filling or crown | Pulp care | Extraction | Needs any treatment | | | (%) | (%) | (%) | (%) | (%) | (%) | (%) |
| | Gender () | | | | | | | | | Boys | 46 (14.9) | 46 (14.9) | 14 (4.4) | 25 (8.0) | 31 (10.0) | 16 (5.2) | 75 (24.3) | | Girls | 39 (16.1) | 36 (14.9) | 18 (7.4) | 20 (8.2) | 24 (9.9) | 8 (3.3) | 61 (25.2) |
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| | Income () | | | | | | | | | <20.000 | 32 (16.0) | 34 (17.0) | 9 (4.5) | 17 (8.5) | 23 (11.5) | 10 (5.0) | 53 (26.5) | | 20.000–40.000 | 20 (12.4) | 22 (13.7) | 8 (5.0) | 12 (7.4) | 14 (8.7) | 6 (3.7) | 33 (20.5) | | >40.000 | 29 (17.8) | 20 (12.3) | 11 (6.7) | 14 (8.5) | 15 (9.2) | 7 (4.3) | 44 (27.0) |
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| | Insurance () | | | | | | | | | No | 42 (14.5) | 45 (15.6) | 13 (4.5) | 22 (7.6) | 28 (9.7) | 14 (4.8) | 69 (24.0) | | Yes | 37 (15.6) | 31 (13.1) |
15 (6.4) | 21 (8.7) | 23 (9.7) | 10 (4.2) | 59 (25.0) |
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| | Born in Canada () | | | | | | | | | No | 20 (19.2) | 24 (23.0) | 9 (8.6) | 11 (10.5) | 16 (15.3) | 11 (10.5) | 35 (33.7) | | Yes | 59 (16.6) | 49 (13.8) | 19 (5.3) | 26 (7.2) | 30 (8.4) | 10 (2.8) | 88 (24.8) |
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| | Ethnicity () | | | | | | | | | Aboriginal | 5 (12.9) | 3 (7.3) | 3 (7.3) | 3 (7.3) | 3 (7.3) | 2 (4.8) | 7 (17.1) | | Chinese | 8 (13.7) | 7 (12.0) | 3 (5.1) | 4 (6.7) | 6 (10.3) | 1 (1.7) | 12 (20.7) | | European | 10 (11.7) | 16 (18.8) | 12 (14.1) |
14 (16.4) | 16 (18.8) | 3 (3.5) | 20 (23.5) | | Filipino | 15 (13.5) | 20 (18.0) | 6 (5.4) | 11 (9.8) | 11 (9.8) | 8 (7.2) | 30 (27.0) | | Vietnamese | 7 (10.4) | 9 (13.4) | 3 (4.4) | 4 (5.9) | 4 (5.9) | 3 (4.4) | 15 (22.4) | | South Asian | 17 (17.3) | 11 (11.2) | 1 (1.0) | 5 (5.1) | 8 (8.1) | 0 (0.0) | 23 (32.6) | | Other | 24 (25.2) | 17 (17.8) | 4 (4.2) | 5 (5.2) | 8 (8.4) | 7 (7.3) | 31 (32.6) |
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| | Dental Visit () | | | | | | | | | Last year | 42 (16.7) | 37 (14.7) | 15 (6.0) | 21 (8.2) | 24 (9.5) | 11 (4.4) | 63 (25.0) | | More than 1 year | 5 (22.7) | 7 (31.8) | 2 (9.1) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (4.5) | 2 (9.1) | 9 (40.9) | | Never/don’t know | 27 (16.7) | 26 (16.0) | 12 (7.4) | 19 (11.6) | 24 (14.8) | 6 (3.7) | 45 (27.8) |
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Chi-Square/Fisher’s exact test. Missing data due to children’s inability to answer, or information was incomplete.
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