{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,25]],"date-time":"2026-02-25T10:26:42Z","timestamp":1772015202647,"version":"3.50.1"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Knowledge E DMCC","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["fid"],"abstract":"<jats:p>Objectives: This study aimed to assess the caries experience and severity among students with disabilities in Sokoto, Nigeria.\r\nMaterials and Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on elementary and high-school students with special needs attending Abdulrasheed Adisa Raji Special School in Sokoto State, Nigeria, who were selected by a systematic random sampling method. The students were between 6 to 28 years, and had hearing, visual, intellectual, or physical disabilities. Data regarding their sociodemographic characteristics were collected using a questionnaire, and their dental caries experience was determined by using the decayed, missing, and filled teeth (DMFT) index. SPSS version 23 was used for data analysis with a statistical significance set at 0.05.\r\nResults: Sixty-nine females (29.2%) and 167 males (70.8%), totaling 236 students, with disabilities participated in this study. The mean DMFT score was 0.72\u00b11.32. Children between 6-12 years had the highest caries experience (mean DMFT=0.92\u00b11.17). Among different disability groups, those with intellectual disability had the highest rate of caries experience (mean DMFT=0.98\u00b11.61). Males had a higher rate of dental caries experience than females (P=0.006). The decayed component (DT) had by far the highest mean score (0.66\u00b11.26) compared to other DMFT components.\r\nConclusion: The caries experience of the study population was low. Nonetheless, the severity of caries was high in those who had caries experience.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.18502\/fid.v22i47.20329","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,7]],"date-time":"2025-12-07T08:29:21Z","timestamp":1765096161000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Caries Experience and Severity Among Students with Disabilities in Sokoto, Nigeria"],"prefix":"10.18502","author":[{"given":"Mike Eghosa","family":"Ogbeide","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Abdurrazaq Olanrewaju","family":"Taiwo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"7770","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,6]]},"container-title":["Frontiers in Dentistry"],"original-title":[],"link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/publish.kne-publishing.com\/index.php\/fid\/article\/download\/20329\/19295","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/publish.kne-publishing.com\/index.php\/fid\/article\/download\/20329\/19295","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,25]],"date-time":"2026-02-25T09:44:19Z","timestamp":1772012659000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/publish.kne-publishing.com\/index.php\/fid\/article\/view\/20329"},"secondary":[{"URL":"https:\/\/fid.tums.ac.ir\/index.php\/fid\/article\/view\/4646","label":"UNIVERSITY"}]},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,6]]},"references-count":0,"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.18502\/fid.v22i47.20329","relation":{},"ISSN":["2676-296X"],"issn-type":[{"value":"2676-296X","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,6]]}}}