Nutritional Status and its Relationship with Dental Caries among 3–6-year-old Anganwadi Children

AIM: The purpose of this study is to determine dental caries status in 3–6-year-old malnourished children. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 500 children aged 3–6 years enrolled in anganwadi were selected for this study. The nutritional status was evaluated by anthropometric measurements such as bod...

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Autores principales: Madhusudhan, Kempaiah S, Khargekar, Nitin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2020
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7299890/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32581470
http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10005-1706
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description AIM: The purpose of this study is to determine dental caries status in 3–6-year-old malnourished children. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 500 children aged 3–6 years enrolled in anganwadi were selected for this study. The nutritional status was evaluated by anthropometric measurements such as body weight and height [body mass index (BMI)-for-age]. Dental caries status was recorded according to WHO criteria. The obtained data were subjected to statistical analysis. RESULTS: The prevalence of underweight was 41% and prevalence of dental caries was 61%. CONCLUSION: Low BMI-for-age is a risk factor for dental caries. CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE: Inclusion of BMI-for-age calculation in routine case history pro forma helps in timely diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of children suffering from malnutrition. HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Madhusudhan KS, Khargekar N. Nutritional Status and its Relationship with Dental Caries among 3–6-year-old Anganwadi Children. Int J Clin Pediatr Dent 2020;13(1):6–10.
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spelling pubmed-72998902020-06-23 Nutritional Status and its Relationship with Dental Caries among 3–6-year-old Anganwadi Children Madhusudhan, Kempaiah S Khargekar, Nitin Int J Clin Pediatr Dent Original Article AIM: The purpose of this study is to determine dental caries status in 3–6-year-old malnourished children. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 500 children aged 3–6 years enrolled in anganwadi were selected for this study. The nutritional status was evaluated by anthropometric measurements such as body weight and height [body mass index (BMI)-for-age]. Dental caries status was recorded according to WHO criteria. The obtained data were subjected to statistical analysis. RESULTS: The prevalence of underweight was 41% and prevalence of dental caries was 61%. CONCLUSION: Low BMI-for-age is a risk factor for dental caries. CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE: Inclusion of BMI-for-age calculation in routine case history pro forma helps in timely diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of children suffering from malnutrition. HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Madhusudhan KS, Khargekar N. Nutritional Status and its Relationship with Dental Caries among 3–6-year-old Anganwadi Children. Int J Clin Pediatr Dent 2020;13(1):6–10. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7299890/ /pubmed/32581470 http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10005-1706 Text en Copyright © 2020; Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd. © The Author(s). 2020 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and non-commercial reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_fullStr Nutritional Status and its Relationship with Dental Caries among 3–6-year-old Anganwadi Children
title_full_unstemmed Nutritional Status and its Relationship with Dental Caries among 3–6-year-old Anganwadi Children
title_short Nutritional Status and its Relationship with Dental Caries among 3–6-year-old Anganwadi Children
title_sort nutritional status and its relationship with dental caries among 3–6-year-old anganwadi children
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7299890/
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