The proportion of people with at least one untreated tooth decay when considering health reaches a maximum between 20 and 24 years, regardless of sex

The proportion of people with at least one untreated tooth decay when considering health reaches a maximum between 20 and 24 years, regardless of sex (48.8% male, 41.7% women) .
This proportion decreases with age, but is still higher among men than among women. This decline with age resulting from the decrease in the number of teeth present. The latter rose from 28 teeth present to the class 15-24 years to 17 for men and 15 for women over 60 years.

At any age, people in precarious situations are more frequent untreated tooth decay than non-precarious. The prevalence of caries decreased with age more sharply in the precarious than in non-fragile. Consequently, the gap between the two groups is narrowing.

The investigation Précalog CREDES also showed a strong association between dental and insecurity: the lack of dental care is highest among people in precarious situations. The major reasons for not visiting the dentist, according to the study Précalog, due to feelings of uselessness of these visits (41%) and financial reasons (40%).

The study conducted by a sample of 1997 data of the ESC of Insurance had also shown that people in precarious situations had more decayed teeth and more teeth than non-precarious. While the average number of these teeth is not very different between casual and non-insecure, that of decayed teeth differs greatly depending on the precarious, it doubles in precarious compared to non-precarious.



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Regional variations

Between 15 and 24 years, the prevalence of tooth decay than 50% of men and nearly 50% for women in Picardy, Burgundy, Auvergne, Limousin and PACA. The regions least affected are Aquitaine, Poitou-Charentes and Pays de la Loire.

Between 25 and 59 years, areas of high prevalence of dental caries are located on a central axis of Picardy in Languedoc-Roussillon. The minimum is still observed in parts of western and south-west.

After 60 years, the geographical variability remains very close to that observed between 25 and 59 years.

Précarité and Geography

Between 15 and 24 years, the most affected regions are essentially the same among non-insecure and in precarious. However, for the latter, the North-Calais Pasde and Lorraine also caries rates very high, especially among boys. Between 25 and 59 years, there is always similar geographical variations in precarious and non-precarious at different levels naturally.