title: Impact of dental pain on daily living of five-year-old Brazilian preschool children: prevalence and associated factors.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess the impact of dental pain on the daily living of 5-year-old preschool children using reports from parents/guardians.
  
  
  METHODS
  A cross-sectional study was carried out involving 549 five-year-old children randomly selected from preschools in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Data were collected using a previously validated parent-reported questionnaire. The children received dental examinations from a single calibrated examiner. The following outcome variables were selected: age, gender, dental caries, filled teeth, missing teeth, caries involving pulp and social class. Simple and multiple logistic regression analyses were performed on the data.
  
  
  RESULTS
  According to parents' reports, 11.1% of children were affected by dental pain in the previous 4 months and of these 72.6% had their daily activities hampered by pain. The majority of these children had difficulty in eating, brushing teeth, sleeping, playing and going to school. The impact of dental pain had a statistically significant association with gender (p=0.001), social class (p=0.009), dental caries (p<0.001), missing teeth (p<0.001), filled teeth (p<0.001) and caries involving pulp (p<0.001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The prevalence of difficulties performing tasks of daily living due to dental pain was relatively high among the children studied.
authors: Department of Peadiatric Dentistry and Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
authors: F R
authors: FR
authors: Moure-Leite
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Ramos-Jorge
authors: M L
authors: ML
authors: Ramos-Jorge
authors: S M
authors: SM
authors: Paiva
authors: M P
authors: MP
authors: Vale
authors: I A
authors: IA
authors: Pordeus
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living / Q000523:psychology*; D000367:Age Factors; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004245:DMF Index; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D012494:Sampling Studies; D012737:Sex Factors; D018434:Sickness Impact Profile; D012923:Social Class; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014098:Toothache / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*