Abstract
Objective: To obtain the effectiveness of propolis fluoride application in inhibiting dental caries activity. Methods: The study was included 170 children aged 6–9 years old with active dentinal carries surface was 532 tooth surfaces, all of 532 tooth surface will applicate use propolis fluoride in school children at primary school SD Kukusan. Evaluation of the amount of dentinal caries lesion that has been arrested was conducted after 1 month, 2 months, and 4 months after topical application. Results: After propolis fluoride applicated shows, that the activated process caries of dentinal caries lesion after 1 month was found in 104 tooth surfaces, 2 months were 115 tooth surfaces, and after 4 months evaluated were found significant increase to be 226 tooth surfaces on dentinal caries activated from 2nd to 4th month after application propolis fluoride (p<0.01). The percentages of arrested caries in, respectively, for 1st month after the application is 99.80%, 2nd month application is 78.32%, and in the 4th month is 57.52% while the score plaque of school children was decline significantly until 36.5% (p<0.05) after 4 months intervention by tooth brushing every week at school. Conclusion: The application of propolis fluoride is effective in inhibiting dentinal caries lesion activity, has the advantage of making no black discoloration to the teeth.
Highlights
Nowadays childhood dental caries is still a considerable health problem
The significance value to indicate that there is a significant increase in dentinal caries activated from 2nd to 4th month after application propolis fluoride (p
The result showed that the prevalence of childhood dental caries by 85.05% with a mean value of def-t 5.7, which largely dominated by the decay component with mean value 5.13
Summary
Nowadays childhood dental caries is still a considerable health problem. According to the WHO, at the end of 2006, the incidence of dental caries in school-age children was about 60–90% [1]. A research in Jakarta in 2007 showed the prevalence of ECC in children under 3 years of age was 52.7% with def-t index 2.85 [6]. Research on children aged 5 years old in Jabodetabek in 2014 showed the prevalence of dental caries by 90% with average def-t index 7.54 and average of decay index 6.84 [7]. All of the data onto indicate that childhood dental caries still continues to be the main problem in children. According to the report of Ministry on Health on basic research of health 2013, at group aged 1–4 years old, there were 10.4% children who had dental problems, yet only 25.8% who received treatment. While in the group aged 5–9 years old, there were 28.9% children who had dental problems, but only 35.1% who had received treatment. The treatments only included tooth extraction/filling/dental surgery [8]
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