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Age and Reasons for First Dental Visit and Knowledge and Attitude of Parents Toward Dental Procedures for Puducherry Children Aged 0–9 years

BACKGROUND: The first dental visit provides the dentist an opportunity to advise parents on prevention of oral diseases and also allows for early detection of caries and arrest of its progression. The first dental visit should occur no later than 12 months of age. However, parents fail to give impor...

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Autores principales: Sanguida, Adimoulame, Vinothini, Venkatachalamoorthi, Prathima, Gajula Shivashankarappa, Santhadevy, Arumugam, Premlal, Kulandairaj, Kavitha, Muthukrishnan
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6555334/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31198379
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JPBS.JPBS_54_19
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author Sanguida, Adimoulame
Vinothini, Venkatachalamoorthi
Prathima, Gajula Shivashankarappa
Santhadevy, Arumugam
Premlal, Kulandairaj
Kavitha, Muthukrishnan
author_facet Sanguida, Adimoulame
Vinothini, Venkatachalamoorthi
Prathima, Gajula Shivashankarappa
Santhadevy, Arumugam
Premlal, Kulandairaj
Kavitha, Muthukrishnan
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description BACKGROUND: The first dental visit provides the dentist an opportunity to advise parents on prevention of oral diseases and also allows for early detection of caries and arrest of its progression. The first dental visit should occur no later than 12 months of age. However, parents fail to give importance to primary dentition as they feel that they are temporary. AIM: The aim of this study was to determine the age of first dental visit and most common reasons for the visit among children aged 0–9 years and to examine the knowledge and attitude of their parents toward treatment procedures for children, taking into account their socioeconomic and educational status. MATERIALS AND METHODS: After obtaining informed consent from parents, sociodemographic data that included age and gender of the child, educational status, occupation of parents, and annual family income were collected. A validated questionnaire was given to the parents. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS USED: Descriptive statistics (proportion) was used to report the data. To examine differences in knowledge and attitudes among different socioeconomic and educational groups, chi-square test was used with P value <0.05. RESULTS: A total of 300 completed questionnaires were analyzed. Age of first dental visit was 6–9 years (57%) and the most common reason for the visit was decayed teeth (33%). The overall attitude of parents toward treatment procedures for children was good in spite of low levels of knowledge about primary teeth and role of the pedodontist. CONCLUSIONS: It is necessary to promote early dental visits by providing education on perinatal and infant oral healthcare to the healthcare professionals dealing with children. It is also important to promote awareness regarding the maintenance of primary dentition.
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spelling pubmed-65553342019-06-13 Age and Reasons for First Dental Visit and Knowledge and Attitude of Parents Toward Dental Procedures for Puducherry Children Aged 0–9 years Sanguida, Adimoulame Vinothini, Venkatachalamoorthi Prathima, Gajula Shivashankarappa Santhadevy, Arumugam Premlal, Kulandairaj Kavitha, Muthukrishnan J Pharm Bioallied Sci Original Article BACKGROUND: The first dental visit provides the dentist an opportunity to advise parents on prevention of oral diseases and also allows for early detection of caries and arrest of its progression. The first dental visit should occur no later than 12 months of age. However, parents fail to give importance to primary dentition as they feel that they are temporary. AIM: The aim of this study was to determine the age of first dental visit and most common reasons for the visit among children aged 0–9 years and to examine the knowledge and attitude of their parents toward treatment procedures for children, taking into account their socioeconomic and educational status. MATERIALS AND METHODS: After obtaining informed consent from parents, sociodemographic data that included age and gender of the child, educational status, occupation of parents, and annual family income were collected. A validated questionnaire was given to the parents. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS USED: Descriptive statistics (proportion) was used to report the data. To examine differences in knowledge and attitudes among different socioeconomic and educational groups, chi-square test was used with P value <0.05. RESULTS: A total of 300 completed questionnaires were analyzed. Age of first dental visit was 6–9 years (57%) and the most common reason for the visit was decayed teeth (33%). The overall attitude of parents toward treatment procedures for children was good in spite of low levels of knowledge about primary teeth and role of the pedodontist. CONCLUSIONS: It is necessary to promote early dental visits by providing education on perinatal and infant oral healthcare to the healthcare professionals dealing with children. It is also important to promote awareness regarding the maintenance of primary dentition. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2019-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6555334/ /pubmed/31198379 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JPBS.JPBS_54_19 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Sanguida, Adimoulame
Vinothini, Venkatachalamoorthi
Prathima, Gajula Shivashankarappa
Santhadevy, Arumugam
Premlal, Kulandairaj
Kavitha, Muthukrishnan
Age and Reasons for First Dental Visit and Knowledge and Attitude of Parents Toward Dental Procedures for Puducherry Children Aged 0–9 years
title Age and Reasons for First Dental Visit and Knowledge and Attitude of Parents Toward Dental Procedures for Puducherry Children Aged 0–9 years
title_full Age and Reasons for First Dental Visit and Knowledge and Attitude of Parents Toward Dental Procedures for Puducherry Children Aged 0–9 years
title_fullStr Age and Reasons for First Dental Visit and Knowledge and Attitude of Parents Toward Dental Procedures for Puducherry Children Aged 0–9 years
title_full_unstemmed Age and Reasons for First Dental Visit and Knowledge and Attitude of Parents Toward Dental Procedures for Puducherry Children Aged 0–9 years
title_short Age and Reasons for First Dental Visit and Knowledge and Attitude of Parents Toward Dental Procedures for Puducherry Children Aged 0–9 years
title_sort age and reasons for first dental visit and knowledge and attitude of parents toward dental procedures for puducherry children aged 0–9 years
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6555334/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31198379
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JPBS.JPBS_54_19
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