Possible reasons of dental caries wide spreading in Ukraine: disscussion

Abstract

Ukrainian population has a high prevalence of dental caries and paradontal diseases. The prevalence of dental caries in 6-year-olds children is about 87.9%; 12-year-olds children – 72.3%. Principles of public dental care in Ukraine were identified in early Soviet period and that legitimized it as a public and free of charge with preventive orientation. We may identify the next reasons of dental caries spreading: medical - shortcomings in dental care organization, underdeveloped prevention of dental diseases; economic — commercialization of the dentistry in Ukraine, medical care and dental services are less available to the vast majority of population due to their high cost; social reasons - low or completely absence of culture of proper hygienic oral care; irrational consuming of light refined carbohydrates; dentofobia among children and adults, lazy chewing and high homogenization of food; environmental causes - not fully investigated, - industrial waste, heavy metals and household chemicals' decomposition products, which indirectly affects the status of dental health.