Community Dental Health

cover art

Cover Date:
June 2009
Print ISSN:
0265 539X
Vol:
26
Issue:
2

Early childhood caries and related risk factors in Mongolian children

Objectives: The aims of this study were to investigate the dental caries experience among 1-5 year-old children in the two areas of Ulaanbaatar city, and to examine the relationship of dental caries experience with socioeconomic status, eating behaviors, oral hygiene habits, dental plaque accumulation and Mutans Streptococci level. Methods: In 2004/2005, 670 children from the two areas were examined and a questionnaire survey was conducted. Mutans streptococci (MS) levels in the children’s and mothers’ dental plaque were evaluated using Dentocult SM. Results: Dental caries prevalence (72%) and mean dmft (4.4) were very high in both areas, however, children in the central area showed higher caries severity than those in the suburban area in 3-5-year olds (p<0.05). Higher family income and education level of the mothers were significantly associated with children’s higher caries experience. Furthermore, dental caries showed a significant positive relationship with sweets intake and a negative relationship with tooth brushing habits of the children. The children’s caries experience was significantly and positively associated with modified debris index (m-DI) scores, and the MS levels in their own and their mothers’ dental plaque. Area, sweets intake, prolonged breastfeeding, and high MS level in the dental plaque resulted in significant odds ratios for the development of caries. Conclusions: The prevalence of dental caries amongst 1-5 year-old children in Ulaanbaatar City, Mongolia was found to be high and was associated with socioeconomic, demographic and behavioural factors.

Key words: Early childhood caries, epidemiology, risk factor, Mongolia

Article Price
£15.00
Institution Article Price
£
Page Start
121
Page End
128
Authors
B. Jigjid, M. Ueno, K. Shinada, Y. Kawaguchi

Articles from this issue

  • Title
  • Pg. Start
  • Pg. End

  1. Editorial - NHS dental care and the issues of public service ethos, governance, accountability and probity
  2. 66
  3. 68

  1. Racial and ethnic differences in a regular source of dental care and the oral health, behaviors, beliefs and services of lowincome mothers
  2. 69
  3. 76

  1. Association of urgent dental care with subjective oral health indicators and psychosocial impact
  2. 77
  3. 83

  1. The use of conversation mapping to frame key perceptual issues facing the general dental practice system in England.
  2. 84
  3. 91

  1. Deprivation and access to dental care in a socially diverse metropolitan area
  2. 92
  3. 98

  1. Seroepidemiology of hepatitis C antibodies among dentists and their self-reported use of infection control measures
  2. 99
  3. 103

  1. Relationships between patient characteristics and reasons for tooth extraction in Japan
  2. 104
  3. 109

  1. Differences in oral health behaviour between children from high and children from low SES schools in the Netherlands.
  2. 110
  3. 115

  1. Caries prevalence in Suriname schoolchildren
  2. 116
  3. 120

  1. Early childhood caries and related risk factors in Mongolian children
  2. 121
  3. 128