[The relationship between the infant nursing bottle caries and the feeding patterns, oral health behavior and parents' oral health information].
OBJECTIVE
To investigate the relationship between the infant nursing bottle caries in city community and the feeding patterns, oral health behavior, parents' oral health information, and to provide scientific basis for future infant nursing bottle caries prevention.


METHODS
Three hundred infants aged 6, 7, 12, 18 months in April 2009 in Bai Guan Street Community Hospital Shangyu City were enrolled in this study, nursing bottle caries were examined and recorded. Questionnaires on infant basic data, feeding patterns, oral health behavior, parents' oral health information were asked and recorded in these 300 parents. The relationship was analyzed between the infant nursing bottle caries and the questionnaires by Chi-square test with the SPSS14.0 software package.


RESULTS
The infant nursing bottle caries correlated obviously with the habit of sleeping with the nursing bottle or mammary papilla in mouth, and did not correlate with the breast or artificial feeding patterns. The occurrence rate of infant nursing bottle caries was significantly lower in the infants with oral health behavior than those without oral health behavior. After feeding food, more parents feed the infants with little plain boiled water than clean the infant oral cavity with finger cap wet carbasus. 56.7% of parents had no acknowledge of danger of infant nursing bottle caries.


CONCLUSIONS
There is some correlation between the infant nursing bottle caries and the feeding patterns, oral health behavior, parents' oral health information.
Department of Stomatology, People's Hospital of Shangyu City, Shangyu 312300, Zhejiang Province, China. zjsyzhong@126.com
Zhao-qi
ZQ
Zhong
D001903:Bottle Feeding; D001942:Breast Feeding; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D003731:Dental Caries; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D009909:Oral Health; D010290:Parents; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires