Letter to the Editor
Alarming Status of the Decayed, Missing, and Filled teeth (DMFT) Index in Iran: Challenges and Solutions
Sanaz Amiri
1 
, Seyed Parsa Dehghani
2, Habibollah Azarbakhsh
3* 1 Department of Community Medicine, School of Medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
2 School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
3 Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
Cite this article as: Amiri S, Dehghani SP, Azarbakhsh H. Alarming status of the decayed, missing, and filled teeth (DMFT) index in Iran: challenges and solutions. Arch Iran Med 2026;29(2):129-130. doi:10.34172/aim.34930