The Fifth German Oral Health Study (Fünfte Deutsche Mundgesundheitsstudie, DMS V) - rationale, design, and methods

Rainer A Jordan, Constanze Bodechtel, Katrin Hertrampf, Thomas Hoffmann, Thomas Kocher, Ina Nitschke, Ulrich Schiffner, Helmut Stark, Stefan Zimmer, Wolfgang Micheelis, DMS V Surveillance Investigators’ Group, Rainer A Jordan, Wolfgang Micheelis, Inge Bayer, Constanze Bodechtel, Ursula Reis, Linda Scharf, Rainer A Jordan, Katrin Hertrampf, Thomas Hoffmann, Thomas Kocher, Wolfgang Micheelis, Ina Nitschke, Ulrich Schiffner, Helmut Stark, Sarah Noffz, Birte Holtfreter, Thomas Bachmann, Jörg Eschenlohr, Thomas Rappold, Elisabeth Füßl-Grünig, Elisabeth Füßl-Grünig, Constanze Bodechtel, Dieter Baumert, Peter Brietsche, Markus Nispel, Joachim Schulze, Gülay Aykal, Beate Bohnke-Schulz, Regine Dirbach, Martin Engler, Jutta Gesk, Bernd Habersaat, Rita Schleypen, Kerstin Groß, Nele Kettler, Johannes Löw, Nikola Johanna Sprehe, Detlef Joachim Weimar, Rainer A Jordan, Constanze Bodechtel, Katrin Hertrampf, Thomas Hoffmann, Thomas Kocher, Ina Nitschke, Ulrich Schiffner, Helmut Stark, Stefan Zimmer, Wolfgang Micheelis, DMS V Surveillance Investigators’ Group, Rainer A Jordan, Wolfgang Micheelis, Inge Bayer, Constanze Bodechtel, Ursula Reis, Linda Scharf, Rainer A Jordan, Katrin Hertrampf, Thomas Hoffmann, Thomas Kocher, Wolfgang Micheelis, Ina Nitschke, Ulrich Schiffner, Helmut Stark, Sarah Noffz, Birte Holtfreter, Thomas Bachmann, Jörg Eschenlohr, Thomas Rappold, Elisabeth Füßl-Grünig, Elisabeth Füßl-Grünig, Constanze Bodechtel, Dieter Baumert, Peter Brietsche, Markus Nispel, Joachim Schulze, Gülay Aykal, Beate Bohnke-Schulz, Regine Dirbach, Martin Engler, Jutta Gesk, Bernd Habersaat, Rita Schleypen, Kerstin Groß, Nele Kettler, Johannes Löw, Nikola Johanna Sprehe, Detlef Joachim Weimar

Abstract

Background: Oral diseases rank among the most prevalent non-communicable diseases in modern societies. In Germany, oral epidemiological data show that both dental caries and periodontal diseases are highly prevalent, though significant improvements in oral health has been taking in the population within the last decades, particularly in children. It is, therefore, the aim of the Fifth German Oral Health Study (DMS V) to actualize the data on current oral health status and to gather information on oral health behavior and risk factors. In addition to current oral health monitoring, the study will also permit conclusions about trends in the development of oral health in Germany between 1989 and 2014.

Methods/design: DMS V is a cross-sectional, multi-center, nationwide representative, socio-epidemiological study to investigate the oral health status und behavior of the German resident population in four age cohorts. Study participants are children (12-year-olds), adults (35- to 44-year-olds), young olds (65- to 74-year-olds), and old olds (75- to 100-year-olds) who are drawn from local residents' registration offices. Social-science investigation parameters concern subjective perceptions and attitudes regarding oral health and nutrition, sense of coherence, and socio-demographic data. Clinical oral parameters are tooth loss, caries and periodontitis, prosthodontic status, further developmental and acquired dental hard tissue and mucosal lesions. To ensure reproducibility, the dental investigators are trained and calibrated by experts and multiple reliability checks are performed throughout the field phase. Statistical analyses are calculated according to a detailed statistical analysis plan.

Discussion: The DMS studies first performed in 1989, 1992 and repeated in 1997 and 2005 are the only cross-sectional oral health studies conducted in Germany on a population-based national representative level. Updated prevalence and trend analyses of key oral diseases are, therefore, of major epidemiological and health services research interest.

Trial registration: German Health Services Research Data Bank VfD_DMSV_13_002152.

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DMS V study sample points*. *Orange marked communities or cities are regular study sample points; in red marked cities, more than 1 study sample point was selected; in yellow marked study sample points, the communities were too small by population to achieve the target number of study participants and a so called synthetic study sample point was built by pooling several surrounding communities.

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