Brás, Manuel AlbertoBrás, RicardoMachado, Dora2022-06-202022-06-202022Brás, Manuel Alberto Morais Brás; Brás, Ricardo; Machado, Dora (2022. Prevalence of dental caries in the school population of a municipality in the Northern Interior of Portugal. Journal of Integrated Health. ISSN 2302-1381. 1:1, p. 1-92302-1381http://hdl.handle.net/10198/25592Dental caries affects all age groups and is the most common chronic disease in children aged 5 to 17 years. The present work seeks to know the dimension of the problem, to compare the reality found in the school population, aged between 7 and 19 years old, in a municipality in the northern interior of Portugal with others already studied, to calculate the distance that separates them from the goals of the World Health Organization for the year 2020 and to evaluate and analyze the association of the presence of dental caries with behavioral variables.408 children, from the 1st and 2nd school cycles, from the 2006/2007 school year, attending public schools were examined.engDMF indexDental cariesStudentsjournal article2338-4506