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Analysis of factors influencing the caries prevalence of deciduous teeth in children of three years old.

1988; Volume: 38; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5834/jdh.38.631

2189-7379

Daisuke Hinode, Junko Shimada, Eiji Ohara, Hiroshi Terai, Tomie YAMASAKI, Akito Wada, Hajime Sagawa, Makoto Sato, Ryo Nakamura,

Dental Health and Care Utilization

The factors influencing the caries prevalence of children of three years of age were investigated using multivariant analysis.The number of subjects were 543 who received the 3-year-old dental examination at Naruto Community Health Center in Tokushima from July to December in 1987. The caries-decisive factors examined were“Order of birth”, “Guardian”, “Kind of feeding”, “Nursing in bed”, “Frequency of between-meal eating”, “Place of between-meal eating”, “Amount of sweet snacks”, “Frequency of tooth brushing”and“Brushing by whom”and these factors were asked by questionnaire to mothers of children. Quantification types I and II were used as analytical methods. The former was applied to analyze the factors which had an influence on the dmft number, and the latter to analyze the factors which had an influence on the onset of dental caries.The results were summarized as follows.1. The factors strongly related to caries onset were“Place of between-meal eating”, “Amount of sweet snacks”and“Nursing in bed”, in order.2. The factors strongly related to the number of dmft were“Guardian”, “Kind of feeding”and“Nursing in bed”, in that order. In“Guardian”, the category grandparents seemed to be a cariespromoting factor, and nursery school seemed to be an inhibitory factor.3. A significant relationship between habitual tooth-brushing and caries onset or the number of dmft was not observed in this study.