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This indicator was put on hold in November 2016 until the introduction of the new mental health services data set (MHSDS) meant that a new indicator methodology could be developed. The indicator was republished with a new methodology in December 2020 and consequently comparisons should not be made to...
UPDATE February 2021: Two issues affecting the contextual information for indicator 1.5.i have been identified. Neither of these issues affected the indicator values and both have been corrected in the excel and CSV files for this indicator:
The percentage of teeth previously decayed or currently decayed that were treated by filling, i.e. an index of the extent to which dental decay has been successfully treated by restorative techniques.
The mean number of teeth which are either actively decayed and require treatment or which have been treated for decay by filling or extraction only in those children who have some experience of dental decay, i.e. the total dental decay experience (current and past) in children who have had some dental...
The mean number of actively decayed teeth only in those children who have active decay, i.e. the mean number of teeth requiring treatment for decay in those children who currently require treatment.
The percentage of children in the whole age-group who have active dental decay, i.e. the proportion of children requiring treatment.
The percentage of children in the whole age-group with any decayed/missing/filled teeth i.e. the proportion of children with a dmft/DMFT score greater than zero, and therefore some experience of dental decay.
Mean number of teeth per child in the whole age-group which are either actively decayed and require treatment or which were treated for decay either by extraction or filling, i.e. the mean number of teeth which were affected by decay. This is a summation of the mean number of decayed/missing/filled ...
Mean number of filled otherwise sound teeth per child in the whole age-group, i.e. teeth which decayed in the past, and were treated by filling, and which do not currently require further treatment.
Mean number of teeth per child missing due to dental caries (decay) in the whole age-group, i.e. teeth which decayed in the past and were treated by extraction.