https://www.seejph.com/index.php/seejph <h3>South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (ISSN: 2197-5248)</h3> <p><strong>Focusing on Health Systems in Transition and Global Health<br /></strong></p> <p>The South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH) is an open-access international peer-reviewed journal involving all areas of health sciences and public health. Devoted to the global health SEEJPH welcomes submissions of scientists, researchers, and practitioners from all over the world, but particularly pertinent to southern and eastern countries in transition.</p> <p>The editors are especially interested in quantitative and qualitative research examining upstream determinants of population health and health services delivery. This very often implies inter-disciplinary and inter-sectoral orientation involving multiple professions and people.</p> <p>SEEJPH accepts - pending fast external review within four weeks of submission - original research articles, reviews of relevant literature, short reports, case studies, commentaries, and letters to the editor. Submissions can be online or by email and are checked for plagiarism. Accepted papers are published in the current issue without delay, accumulating the most recent contributions successively.<br /><br /></p> <p>SEEJPH Publishes all its papers in full open access only. Open access of Publication of article meaning unlimited use and reuse of articles, in addition to giving credit to the authors. All our articles are published under a Journal’s license.</p> <p>From January, 2023, The article processing charges of the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health for article as open access is detailed below:</p> <p><strong>Article Processing Charges(APC) 600 USD</strong></p> <p>Authors pay one-time article processing charges to cover the cost of peer review administration and management and professional production of articles in PDF and other formats. The Fee also includes EOA (early online access) and typesetting of tables, figures, and/or appendices and is payable only after acceptance of the article. </p> Uphills Publishers LLC, United States en-US South Eastern European Journal of Public Health 2197-5248 https://www.seejph.com/index.php/seejph/article/view/7029 <p><strong>Objectives:</strong> To use a systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the combined prevalence of dental caries in the Indian population.</p> <p><strong>Methodology: </strong>To find information about dental caries in the Indian population, a keyword search was done using pertinent keywords in the PubMed, Science Direct, Google Scholar, Cochrane, and Scopus databases. Standard Boolean operators were used in the search criteria, which included English-language manuscripts published between March 2015 and March 2025. Two researchers independently reviewed the studies that satisfied the inclusion criteria, and the Newcastle–Ottawa Scale was used to evaluate their quality. &nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Results:</strong> <strong><br></strong>Seventy of the 253 articles that were found after screening satisfied the inclusion criteria and were used to create the meta-analysis. The overall dental caries prevalence was 54.16% (CI: 0.4966–0.5866), whereas the age-specific prevalence was 52% among individuals aged 3–18 and 62% among those aged over 18 (P &lt; 0.0001).</p> <p><strong>Conclusions:</strong> In addition to an average prevalence of 54.16%, dental caries prevalence rates vary significantly by age, dentition, geographic location, and diagnostic parameters.&nbsp;</p> Nikhil Ajabrao Bomble, Sudarshan Pargaonkar, Shambhavi Shrivastav, Arjun Singh, Shivani Donde, Ranjeet D. Kavitake Copyright (c) 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0 2026-01-10 2026-01-10 1 5