Dietary Habits and Dental Caries in a Population of Spanish Schoolchildren with Low Levels of Caries Experience

Majem, Lluís Serra; Closas, Reina García; Ramón, Josep; Manau, Carolina; Cuenca, E; Krasse, Bo

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“…The importance of diet in caries incidence has, however, been demonstrated in other studies, with regard to total amount consumed 22 , as well as the frequency of intake 3,31,32,59 . It should be noted that the correlation between diet and caries prevalence will be low when caries prevalence is low and the difference in diet habits is small.…”

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“…No study, however, has used a semiquantitative food frequency questionnaire covering the overall general dietary intake of the study population, although a food frequency questionnaire with limited selected food items has been used 3 . According to Willett 52 , food frequency questionnaires have now become the primary method for measuring dietary intake in epidemiological studies.…”

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Energy and macronutrient intake in relation to dental caries incidence in urban black South African preschool children in 1991 and 1995: the Birth-to-Ten study

MacKeown

Cleaton‐Jones

Edwards

2000

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: To study energy and macronutrient intake in relation to dental caries incidence among urban black South African children at the ages of 1 and 5 years. Design and subjects: Food frequency questionnaires and WHO caries diagnostic criteria were used. The study sample of 1639 urban black children with nutrition and dental information from the 1991 and/or 1995 Birth-to-Ten (BTT) Study interceptions comprised true longitudinal (n = 259) and cross-sectional (n = 1216 for 1991 and n = 164 for 1995) subjects. For the longitudinal group true dmfs (decayed, missing, ®lled surfaces) incidence and average intakes of energy and macronutrients between 1991 and 1995 were calculated. Setting: South Africa. Results: Median macronutrient intakes were not signi®cantly different between the cross-sectional and longitudinal samples. Dental caries prevalences at age 1 were 1.2% and 1.5% for the cross-sectional and longitudinal samples, respectively. By age 5 these values were 60.4% and 62.2%, respectively. The median dmfs score at age 1 was 0. At 5 years this was 2 for all children and 5 for those with caries. Statistical analysis for trend at age 5 showed a signi®cant increase in caries prevalence with increasing energy, carbohydrate and added sugar in the cross-sectional sample only. The only signi®cant changes in dmfs scores were seen for energy and added sugar for the whole sample. The r values between log(dmfs incidence 0.3) and the average nutrient log variables were low, and a general linear models analysis showed no statistically signi®cant effects on log(dmfs incidence 0.3) of any of the log nutrient variables. Conclusions: For the relationship between macronutrient intake and caries (prevalence and incidence), a cross-sectional and true longitudinal study gave similar results.

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Energy and macronutrient intake in relation to dental caries incidence in urban black South African preschool children in 1991 and 1995: the Birth-to-Ten study

MacKeown

Cleaton‐Jones

Edwards

2000

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“…The relationship between the development of carious lesions and dietetic factors has been investigated since the 1940s. It has been suggested that the relationship between sugar intake and the development of carious lesions is currently different from that documented in the past decades, since dental health has improved greatly in the developed countries, with no parallel decrease in the consumption of sugar and cariogenic foods 64 .…”

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The prevalence of dental caries among Egyptian children and adolescences and its association with age, socioeconomic status, dietary habits and other risk factors. A cross-sectional study

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Background: Dental caries is a chronic, multifactorial disease, with limited data available for the Egyptian population. The aim of this study is to assess the prevalence of dental caries among Egyptian children and adolescents in correlation with age, gender, body mass index, socioeconomic status, parental education, biological risk factors and dietary habits. Methods: A total number of 369 Egyptian children and adolescents (age ranges from 3-18 years) were examined over the period from 15th November 2017 to 13th January 2018. Socio-demographic data, oral hygiene measures and dietary habits for children were recorded. Dental status was analyzed using decayed, missing and filled tooth index (dmft) for deciduous dentition and (DMFT) index for permanent dentition. For mixed dentition (deft) index was used, d (decayed tooth indicated for filling), e (decayed tooth indicated for extraction) and f (filled tooth). Results: 74% of the children had dental caries with mean dmft: 3.23±4.07; deft: 4.21±3.21; DMFT: 1.04±1.56. In primary dentition, dmft of the children was positively correlated with age, beans, candies, crackers, chocolates and inversely correlated with gender, socio-economic status (SES), parental education, brushing frequency of the parent, brushing frequency of the parent to the child teeth, brushing frequency of the child and consumption of eggs, fruits/vegetables, milk and milk products. In mixed dentition, deft was positively correlated with candies, crackers, citric juices, while negatively correlated with age, SES, parental education, brushing frequency of the parent to the child, brushing frequency of the child, fruits/vegetables. In permanent dentition, DMFT in children was positively correlated with age and chocolates while not correlated with any of the remaining risk factors. Conclusion: The present study clarifies the significant risk factors associated with dental caries amongst Egyptian children. This will help in planning strategies to prevent and treat such disease.

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“…Like for example, the intake of sugar plays a very significant role in dental caries (Gustaffson et al 1954, Nizel and Papas,1989; Rugg-Gunn 1989) was confirmed long back. But several procedural imperfections built in these studies make it hard to confirm a convinced association between dietary habits and dental caries (Screenby, 1975; Newbrun, 1982) [ 11 ]. But its role cannot be taken trivially from the recent studies [ 12 ] [ 13 ] where it is proved that dietary habits take a very important role.…”

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Associations between Diet, Dietary and Oral Hygiene Habits with Caries Occurrence and Severity in Children with Autism at Dammam City, Saudi Arabia

Kotha

AlFaraj

Ramdan

et al. 2018

Open Access Maced J Med Sci

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AIM:The purpose of the study is to achieve the baseline information of the autistic child’s oral health status about the diet, dietary and hygiene habits. The association of these factors with dental caries were assessed.MATERIAL AND METHODS:The survey was composed of self-administered questionnaires to parents about their children’s’ demographic data followed by questions related to diet, dietary and hygiene habits. This is later followed by oral examination for estimating the decayed, missing and filled [dmft] scores as per WHO norms. The variables are analysed using t-tests and ANOVA. Pearson’s correlation coefficients were calculated for each of the independent variables to examine for autocorrelation.RESULTS:The mean age for the present study is 5.8 years with more predilections of caries in females. The autistic children prefer soft diet and pouch it in oral cavity resulting in increased caries though not significant. Other foods like nuts and pulses confectioneries and soft drinks resulted in increased caries, and our study shows significant relation. Consumption of sugars between meals and increased quantity of sugar per day also increased dental caries with highly significant results in our study. Hygiene habits also made a difference in the occurrence of caries though, in our study, it’s not significant.CONCLUSIONS:The study suggests that the oral health education programs should be conducted for the parents, caregivers and the teachers about the diet, dietary and the hygiene habits and the role they play in maintaining the oral hygiene.

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Dietary Habits and Dental Caries in a Population of Spanish Schoolchildren with Low Levels of Caries Experience

Cited by 35 publications

References 7 publications

Energy and macronutrient intake in relation to dental caries incidence in urban black South African preschool children in 1991 and 1995: the Birth-to-Ten study

Energy and macronutrient intake in relation to dental caries incidence in urban black South African preschool children in 1991 and 1995: the Birth-to-Ten study

The prevalence of dental caries among Egyptian children and adolescences and its association with age, socioeconomic status, dietary habits and other risk factors. A cross-sectional study

Associations between Diet, Dietary and Oral Hygiene Habits with Caries Occurrence and Severity in Children with Autism at Dammam City, Saudi Arabia

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