Association between Dental Caries Prevalence And Dental Fluorosis

The aim of the study is to evaluate the association between dental fluorosis and caries risk at different levels of dean fluorosis score. This retrospective study was done using case records of patients visiting Private Dental College and Hospital. Patients with dental fluorosis 18years to 35 years old were included in this study. Patients who were medically compromised and with other developmental anomalies of teeth were excluded from the study. The data on patient age, gender, Dean's fluorosis score and DMFT score were retrieved from case sheets and tabulated. Analysis of the data was performed using SPSS version 20.0, Descriptive statistics and Chi square tests were done.The results proved that there is a significant association found between DMFT and Dean's fluorosis score(p<0.05).Thus the patients with following Dean fluorosis score, questionable,very mild and mild had lesser DMFT scores when compared to patient with moderate and severe score. Within the limits of the present study. It can be concluded that there was a strong positive association between dental fluorosis and dental caries, the more severe the fluorosis level, more is the caries rate.