Study Data from National Taiwan University Update Understanding of Dental Caries (Original Article the Dental Use By Pediatric Patients In the National Health Insurance of Taiwan In 2020): Dental Diseases and Conditions – Dental Caries

2022 JUN 09 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Business Daily -- Current study results on Dental Diseases and Conditions - Dental Caries have been published. According to news reporting out of Taipei, Taiwan, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “Although the penetration rate of National Health Insurance (NHI) of Taiwan is as high as 99%, our children still face the impact of oral diseases. This study investigated the profile of dental use by pediatric patients in the NHI of Taiwan in 2020.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from National Taiwan University, “Data on the population and medical records of NHI were obtained from the websites of Ministry of the Interior and the NHI Administration. The pediatric dental patient data were divided into 3 age groups (0-4, 5-9, and 10-14 years) to investigate and analyze dental treatment records claimed in 2020. In Taiwan, the two most common oral diseases in children were dental caries and gingivitis & periodontal diseases. The dental use rate for treatment of dental caries in children was 16.84% for the 0-4-year, 55.69% for the 5-9-year, and 34.29% for the 10-14-year age groups. Moreover, in all 3 age groups of children, dental caries needed the highest NHI expenses, followed in a descending order by gingivitis & periodontal diseases and diseases of pulp & periapical tissues. Among them, dental caries needed more than half (51.15%) of all dental NHI expenses in the 5-9-year age group. Due to the long-term lack of awareness and behavior for oral health care among Taiwanese people, the dental caries rate of the children remains high. From a costeffectiveness viewpoint, Taiwan government should develop a better oral health care policy to prevent dental caries and gingivitis & periodontal diseases in children. 2022 Association for Dental Sciences of the Republic of China. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).”

For more information on this research see: Original Article the Dental Use By Pediatric Patients In the National Health Insurance of Taiwan In 2020. Journal of Dental Sciences, 2022;17(2):951-957. Journal of Dental Sciences can be contacted at: Elsevier Taiwan, Rm N-412, 4F, Chia Hsin Building 11, No 96, Zhong Shan N Road Sec 2, Taipei, 10449, Taiwan. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Journal of Dental Sciences - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-dental-sciences/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Chun-Pin Chiang, National Taiwan University, National Taiwan University Hospital, College of Medicine, Dept. of Dentistry, Taipei, Taiwan.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jds.2022.02.013. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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