Health Promotion Board tracks Singapore school children’s oral health through an annual dental index for ages twelve and fifteen. The CSV time series aggregates nationwide screening results into indicators planners use for school dental programmes. Educators and epidemiologists can compare year-on-year trends in caries and related measures across the catalogued period from 2003. The collection supports evidence-based planning for HPB’s school health initiatives. Figures summarise population-level dental status rather than individual patient records.
The yearly aggregated data is a dental index which presents the dental health status of the school children
Health Promotion Board CSV of the dental index measuring oral-health status of Singapore school children at ages 12 and 15 from 2003 through 2022. Columns cover year, age, and dental index. School-health and dental-public-health researchers track caries and oral-health outcomes across cohorts.