Associated factors to caries experience of children undergoing general anaesthesia and treatment needs characteristics over a 10 year period.

Children aged 1-6 years treated under GA showed a high caries experience (dmf-s), whereby age as well as migration, but not BMI, were relevant risk factors. Although tooth extraction is the first choice in most cases in the first time period, more conservative procedures were performed in the second half of the follow-up period.