caries prevalence and some caries related factors for 12 year-old children from vientiane and luang prabang provinces in lao people's democratic republic. | caries prevalence and some caries related factors for 100 twelve-year-old children from vientiane and luang prabang provinces in lao people's democratic republic were studied. the caries prevalence was high showing a dmft of 4.6 with 9% of the children being caries free, the d comportment contributed mostly to the dmft and the significant caries index (sic index) was dmft 8.0. as to the caries related factors, 25% of the children were in the high mutans class, 31% of the group had high or very h ... | 2002 | 12221805 |