Dental cavity and fluorosis in a city of the North Region without fluorinated water

Abstract

Introduction: Manaus has no fluoride in public water supply, even though is the eighth most populated city in Brazil. Objective: The aim in this paper was to know the oral health status of the 12-year-old scholars in relation to dental caries, in this large city without fluoridation of public water supply in the year 2003. Methods: The data of this study were obtained from the SB Brazil Project (MS) 2003. It was applied a technique of cluster sampling in three stages that allowed the production of inferences for each of the Brazilian regions, by size of municipality and for each age or age group. We examined 102 school children (12 years), from public schools in Manaus. The CPO-D in Manaus (2003) was 3.20. Conclusion: Therefore, the target for the year 2010 of a CPOD less than 1.0 is distant from the real condition of the city of Manaus.