DEPENDENCE OF DENTAL CARIES INDICATORS IN SCHOOLCHILDREN OF TASHKENT ON THEIR PSYCHO-EMOTIONAL STRESS
Abstract
Dental caries is one of the widespread diseases of hard dental tissues, especially in childhood. In spite of the fact, that much attention is paid to the issues of development and improvement of the methods of caries prevention, its prevalence and intensity remains high enough. Psycho-emotional, physical and intellectual stress experienced by high school students contribute to the beginning of disease development or exacerbation of chronic pathology. Along with the psycho-emotional stress, the dental health of schoolchildren suffers. Analysis of the indices estimating the state of dental hard tissues revealed a direct correlation between the prevalence and intensity of dental caries and the presence of psycho-emotional tension.