Swaminathan Kavitha, Anandan Vasanthakumari, H SelvaKumar, Thomas Eapen
Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai, IND.
Paediatric Dentistry, Adhiparasakthi Dental College and Hospital, Melmaruvathut, IND.
Cureus. 2019 Aug 18;11(8):e5421. doi: 10.7759/cureus.5421.
Diet is a deeply ingrained element of a person's life. Children's dietary habits are a significant contributor to obesity and dental caries. Dental caries during childhood continues to be a significant public health concern, while childhood obesity is increasingly being cited as a major public health problem. This study aimed to assess the correlation between body mass index (BMI) and dental caries in children aged three to 12 years who attended both government and private schools in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
We conducted a cross-sectional review of 2200 children aged three to 12 years with clinically recorded dental caries. The World Health Organization diagnostic criteria for BMI percentile was used to evaluate and record dental caries clinically. The Mann-Whitney and the Kruskal-Wallis tests were used for univariate comparisons.
Mean values between the overweight category and underweight category revealed no significant differences.
We found no association between BMI-for-age and dental caries in children in both primary and mixed dentition. This relationship should be investigated further by longitudinal studies.
饮食是一个人生活中根深蒂固的元素。儿童的饮食习惯是导致肥胖和龋齿的一个重要因素。儿童期龋齿仍然是一个重大的公共卫生问题，而儿童肥胖越来越被视为一个主要的公共卫生问题。本研究旨在评估印度泰米尔纳德邦金奈市公立和私立学校中3至12岁儿童的体重指数（BMI）与龋齿之间的相关性。
我们对2200名3至12岁有临床记录龋齿的儿童进行了横断面研究。采用世界卫生组织BMI百分位数诊断标准对龋齿进行临床评估和记录。使用曼-惠特尼检验和克鲁斯卡尔-沃利斯检验进行单变量比较。
超重类别和体重不足类别之间的平均值没有显著差异。
我们发现，在乳牙列和混合牙列儿童中，年龄别BMI与龋齿之间没有关联。这种关系应通过纵向研究进一步调查。
