An investigation of caries activity of early childhood caries patients and their parents
YU Xing-ru
SHI Hong
DONG Fu-sheng
KANG Cui-ping
Abstract：AIM:To investigate the relationship of early childhood caries(ECC)with the caries activity of corresponding parents by Cariostat method. METHODS:78 children aged 6 years or younger with ECC and the corre-sponding parents (234 subjects)were included in the study. The caries activity of the subjects was examined by Cari-ostat method,the correlation of dmft or DMFT was analyzed;meanwhile the relative factors were investigated and ana-lyzed. RESULTS:①The correlation coefficient of ECC activity test score and the corresponding morthers'caries activ-ity test score was rs＝0.350,P＜0.05. ②The correlation cocefficient of ECC patients'dmft and the corresponding morthers'DMFT was rs＝0.311 ,P＜0.05. The correlation coefficient of ECC patients'dmft and the corresponding fa-thers'DMFT was rs＝0.274 ,P＜0.05. ③In high caries activity group,the proportion of breast-feeding ECC pa-tients was higher than that of other feeding manners of ECC patients. There was a significant difference in feeding man-ners between the low caries activity test and high caries activity test groups (P＜0.05). CONCLUSION:It might be possible in clinic to forecast the occurrence of ECC by testing morthers'caries activity and the index of DMFT to prevent the occurrence of pediatric dental caries. Breast-feeding is a risk factor of high caries activity of ECC patients.
Keywords：early childhood caries(ECC)caries activity testcariostatdecayed missing filled
Publication Date：2018-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：6( 345-349,359 )