title: Dental caries in relation to socio-behavioral factors of 6-year-old school children of Udaipur district, India.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Based on the previous national oral health survey in India, some variation was observed in oral health status and behavior between the urban and rural population. Thus, the present study aimed to assess the dental caries experience in deciduous dentition of 6-year-old urban and rural schoolchildren of Udaipur district and to evaluate the influence of socio behavioral characteristics on dental caries experience.
  
  
  METHODS
  A combination of multi stage and cluster sampling procedure was executed to collect a representative sample of 875, 6-year-old school children. Clinical examination for caries was conducted using dmft (decayed, missing and filled teeth) index. Socio - demographic information was collected prior to clinical examination in addition to information on oral health behavior by personal interviews.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Only 7.8% children reported of brushing their teeth twice or more than twice daily. Rural children visited the dentist less often than the urban children (P < 0.05). Greater proportion of boys (62.2%) experienced caries than girls (55.1%), decayed component constituted a major contribution for dmft. Multivariate analysis demonstrated the influence of gender, urbanization, tooth brushing frequency, dental visits, parent's education and occupation on caries occurrence.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Rural children and boys experienced greater caries than their urban and girl counterparts. Caries experience was related to the parent's occupation and education. Moreover, caries occurrence was influenced by brushing frequency and dental visiting habits.
authors.affiliation: Department of Preventive Dental Sciences, College of Dentistry, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Santhosh Kumar
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Tadakamadla
authors.forename: Jyothi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tadakamadla
authors.forename: Harish
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tibdewal
authors.forename: Prabu
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Duraiswamy
authors.forename: Suhas
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kulkarni
keywords: Dental caries; education of parent; occupation of parent; urbanization
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