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The "toothache" are more common among minority children with special needs

Children are more likely to have pain in the teeth are those belonging to segments below the poverty level, a minority or special needs, according to a report published in the edition November issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the Archives Journals series, the JAMA.

Researchers at the School of Medicine, University of Washington in Seattle, USA, studied the information collected in the National Survey on Child Health in 2007 to determine the prevalence and risk factors in toothache children. Information was collected from a population sample of parents / guardians of 86.730 children between the ages of 1 and 17. Based on the population represented by the sample, the authors found that approximately 10.7 percent of U.S. children had experienced toothache in the previous six months. The authors also found that 58 percent of children who reported pain also reported tooth decay in the same period.