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Improving the Oral Health of Alaska Natives

Eugene Sekiguchi, DDS, Albert H. Guay, DMD, L. Jackson Brown, DDS, PhD and Thomas J. Spangler, Jr, JD

The authors are with the American Dental Association, Chicago, IL.



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  		FIGURE 1—— Mean number of decayed and filled primary teeth for children aged 2 to 5 years: Indian Health Service (IHS) 1999 compared with National Health and Nutrition Examination Survery (NHANES) III.

Source. Adapted from The 1999 Oral Health Survey of American Indian and Alaska Native Dental Patients: Findings, Regional Differences and National Comparisons.1

 


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  		FIGURE 2—— Mean number of decayed, missing, and filled permanent teeth for children aged 5 to 13 years from Indian Health Service patient surveys.

Note. The progress in the reduction of dental disease has reached a plateau in the decade of the 1990s after showing some success in the 1980s.

Source. The 1999 Oral Health Survey of American Indian and Alaska Native Dental Patients: Findings, Regional Differences and National Comparisons.1

 




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