Family Caracteristics, Cariogenic food habits, and dental caries on primary schoolchildren (Survey at primary schoolchildren ini Cihideung resident Tasikmalaya)

Lilik Hidayanti
Dental caries is a common chronic disease of childhood. The effect of dental caries is dental pain, which can make decreasing appetite in a children, and the last will be impact on nutrition deficiency. There are three factor (Foods, Host and Bacteria) whose couse dental caries. There are also the risk factor like family characteristics cause dental caries. The aims of this paper was to evaluated the correlation between family caracteristics, cariogenic food habits and dental caries. Subjects (n:278) a students on primary school in cihideung resident, Tasikmalaya who have 8 year old. Variable was investigated in cross sectional study.  Rank Spearmann were used to measure association between family caracteristics (education, knowledge, attitude, and food preference) and cariogenic food habits. Product moment were used to measure association between cariogenic food habits and dental caries. Logistic regresion were developed for exposure variable to predict dental caries. Almost of the mother’s subject have lower education, lower levels of oral health knowledge but higher level of oral health attitude and poor family socioeconomic
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