Oral Health Country/Area Profile Programme/CAPP

Chosen Region: The Americas - "AMRO"

Data included in the Global Oral Data Bank have been obtained from standard surveys assisted by WHO, or from published literature using comparable methods. In many cases they apply to large groups from the most populous parts of a country providing a working estimate rather than being fully representative. Sources/references are given under every data presented in the relevant country pages.

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Last update: February 17, 2010

AMRO
incl. DMFT for 12-year-olds
Country Year DMFT
Anguilla
non member		 1978
1991		 5.6
2.5
Antigua and Barbuda 1988-89 0.7
Argentina 1980
1987		 3.2
3.4
Bahamas 1981
2000		 1.6
1.6
Barbados 1983
2001		 4.4
0.86
Belize 1979-83
1989
1999		 4.0
6.0
0.6
Bermuda 1989 0.2
Bolivia 1981
1995		 7.6
4.7
Brazil1986
1994
1996
2002-03		6.7
4.9
3.1
2.8
Canada 1974
1982
1989-91
1996-97		 4.4
3.2
3.0-3.7
2.1+
Cayman Islands
non member		 1989-90
1995
1999		 4.6
1.7
0.9
Chile 1989
1991
1995
1996
1999
2006-7		 6.0
5.3
6.7
4.1
3.4
1.9++
Colombia 1973
1984
1998		 7.5
4.8
2.3
Costa Rica 1988
1993
1996
1999		 4.9
4.9
4.8
2.3
Cuba 1973
1989
1992
1998		 6.0
2.9
2.9
1.4
Dominica 1979
1989
1995		 4.8
2.5
2.0
Dominican Republic 1986
1997		 6.0
4.4
Ecuador 1998
1998		 4.5-
5.2- -
El Salvador 1989
2000		 5.1
1.4
Grenada 1991
2000		 5.5
2.2
Guatemala 1987
2002		 8.1
5.2
Guyana 1983
1995		 2.7
1.3
Haiti 1983
1994
1999		 3.2
2.2
0.65
Honduras 1987
1997		 5.7
3.7
Jamaica 1984
1995		 6.7
1.1
Martinique
non membeer		 1988 6.3
Mexico1988-89
1991-92
1997
2001		 4.4
2.5-5.1
2.5
2.0
Nicaragua 1983
1988
1997
2002		6.9
5.9
2.8
1.5*
Panama1989
1993
1997		 4.2
4.1
3.6
Paraguay 1983
1999		 5.9
3.8
Peru1990
1996		 7.0
2.9
Puerto Rico
assoc. member		1997 3.8
St Kitts & Nevis1979-835.5
St Lucia1961
2004		 2.7
6.0
St Vincent & the Grenadines19913.2
Suriname1978
1992
2002		 4.9
2.7
1.9
Trinidad & Tobago 1962
1989
1998
1999-2000
2004		 3.9
4.9
5.2
2.2**
0.6
United States of America (USA)1979-80
1986-87
1988-91
1992-94
1999-2004		 2.6
1.8
1.4
1.28
1.19
Uruguay1992
1999		4.1
2.5
Venezuela1986
1997		3.6
2.1

+ Quebec
++ Santiago Region
- indigenous children of Amazon basin
- - non indigenous children of Amazon basin
* Leon
** Eastern Trinidad

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