[The relationship between familial oral hygiene behaviors and the caries risk factors in children].
OBJECTIVE
The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between familial oral hygiene behaviors and caries risk factors of children and to speculate the possible influential mechanism in order to predict the onset of caries accurately and thoroughly and guide the oral hygiene behaviors accordingly as well.


METHODS
The behavioral variables were acquired through delivering questionnaires and then the children were grouped based on the outcome of questionnaires; the caries risk factors were made necessary transformation; the relationship between them were analyzed with SPSS 12.0 software package for independent t test, stepwise logistic analysis, correlation and regression analysis.


RESULTS
(1) Familial oral hygiene behaviors did influence the caries risk factors statistically. (2) Each kind of oral hygiene behavior had its special target caries risk factor and hence speculating its mechanism was different. (3)The oral hygiene behavior of children might be the result of a complicated influence of many factors including the parents, the teachers and other facets such as the media.


CONCLUSIONS
Besides the conventional caries risk factors, the behavioral variables should be considered to be incorporated into the caries predict model.
Gao
Yan-xia
YX
Department of Stomatology, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100045, China. bluewhimsy@hotmail.com
Feng
Xi-ping
XP
D002648:Child; D003731:Dental Caries; D006801:Humans; D009910:Oral Hygiene; D010290:Parents; D012307:Risk Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires