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Association between morning feeding and other demographic factors with dental caries in 9 years old, Zahedan students
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Marieh Honarmand    , Masoomeh Shirzaiy * , Narjes Amiri Tehrani , Ahmad Sajedi |
| medical sciences , shirzaiy@gmail.com |
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Abstract: (3108 Views) |
Background and Aims: Dental caries is a multi-factorial disease Demographic factors, also diet particularly breakfast which is an important meal are factors affecting the level of dental caries. The purpose of this study was investigation relationship between morning feeding and other demographic factors with tooth decay in 9 years old Zahedan students
Materials and Methods: In This descriptive – analytical and cross-sectional study, Zahedan city divided into four regions based on population table.From each region one public and private school (boy &girl), randomly selected,. for 400 boy& girl students 9 years old was filled the questionnaire about demographic factors, and breakfast consumption and oral examination was done for evaluation of dmft, DMFT and OHI-s criterias by a dentist . Data were analyzed with soft ware spss 21 and t-test , ANOVA and Pearson correlation..
Results: The Mean dmft, DMFT in children served breakfast (5.22±2.5 and 1.34±1.4 ( and in children did not consume breakfast (4.5±2.5 and 1.39±1.44) had no significant difference (p>0.05) but the mother's occupation and, father education had significant correlation with DMFT and mother education had significant correlation with DMFT,,dmft (P <0.05)
Conclusion: breakfast consumption and its type was not effective in reducing the level of dental caries. Children with educated mothers had low permanent and insidious dental caries and tooth decay was significantly lower in children with employer or teacher mothers and educated fathers .
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| Keywords: Dental Caries, Nutrition, Oral Health |
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Type of Study: original article |
Subject:
Pediatrics
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