[Vnbiz] Pocket filling. Credible? - Vietnam 99.4% Dentally Disordered

[AD Marshall]

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From: Mặc AD Marshall <admarshall at gmail.com>
Date: Aug 6, 2007 9:08 PM
Subject: [Go Vap! - SighGone] Pocket filling. Credible? - 99.4% of Vietnam's
populatio...

No wonder there are almost as many dental clinics as Internet shops, over a
dozen, even in this one square kilometre of the boondocks around Market Go
Vap <http://govap-sighgone.blogspot.com/>!

Still any statistic anywhere near 99 percent of anything optional about
people always sounds a bit sus'. Normal
distributions<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution>are
just too danged, well, normal.

Date: 2007-08-06 12:43:34
Source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-08/06/content_6481567.htm
HANOI, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- Up to 99.4 percent of Vietnam's population suffer
dental diseases, local newspaper Pioneer reported Monday.

Specifically, 87.5 percent of people aged under 18 have decayed teeth, while
the rates of those in the age brackets of 33-44 and over 45 are 83.2 percent
and 89.7 percent, respectively, the paper quoted the country's National
Ophthalmology Institute as reporting.

Dental diseases are mainly caused by lack of fluoride in drinking water,
poor dental care, eating too much food with high sugar and starch content,
and shortage of orthodontic doctors, especially in remote and mountainous
areas. An estimated 50 percent of Vietnam's population and over 80 percent
of those having decayed teeth have never undergone dental checkups.

Now, there is one orthodontic doctor for every 25,000-30,000 Vietnamese
people, only one-tenth of the world's average level, according to the Health
Ministry.

Editor: An Lu

Um. What do orthodontists<http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/orthodontics>have
to do with tooth decay?

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