Prevalence of dental caries in a pediatric population during the COVID-19 omicron pandemic era in South India

• Main Authors: Gunasekaran, Manikandan (Author), Shunmugavelu, Karthik (Author), Ponnusamy, Kavitha (Author), Shinde, Aditya (Author), Azhagarsamy, Selvam (Author), Murali, Shobana (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House, 2024-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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Caries is a multifactorial disease that involves a majority of the pediatric population. If not diagnosed and treated, it can lead to severe consequences affecting the permanent dentition. The objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of oral foci of infection in a multispeciality hospita...