Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
      • Places
    • Summary
  • Body section
    • 1 Introduction
      • 1.1 What is dental decay (caries)?
      • 1.2 Classifying the extent of decay
      • 1.3 Risk factors for dental decay
      • 1.4 Dental decay prevention
      • 1.5 Measuring dental decay
      • 1.6 Data used in this report
    • 2 The dental health of Australia's children
      • 2.1 Children's dental health
        • Deciduous teeth
          • Age-specific caries experience
          • Distribution of deciduous caries experience by age
          • Caries significant index
        • Permanent teeth
          • Age-specific caries experience in permanent teeth
          • Distribution of permanent caries experience by age
          • Caries significant index
        • All teeth
          • All teeth: age-specific caries experience
      • 2.2 Dental decay by state and territory
        • 5 and 6 year old dmft by state and territory
        • 12 year old DMFT by state and territory
        • Combined deciduous and permanent teeth decay by state and territory
      • 2.3 Fissure sealants
    • 3 National summary
  • End matter
    • Appendix: Description of survey methods
      • Source of subjects
      • Sampling
      • Data items
      • Weighting of data and data analysis
      • Number in sample
    • References
    • List of tables
    • List of figures