title: Correlation ofStreptococcus mutanscount in Mother-child Pair of Working and Nonworking Mothers: A Cross-sectional Study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine the prevalence ofStreptococcus mutans(MS) in mother-child pairs and to evaluate the correlation in the levels of salivary MS of working and nonworking mothers with that of their children and their associations with other related factors.
  
  
  METHODS
  A cross-sectional study was carried out among 100 mother-child pairs residing in New Multan Nagar Colony, New Delhi, India. A total of 50 children with their mothers were included in the working group and another 50 were included in the nonworking group. A questionnaire regarding the feeding habits, oral hygiene habits, daily intake of sugars of the children along with their weaning time was carried out. All mothers and children were clinically examined for recording decayed, extracted, and filled teeth (deft)/decayed, missing, and filled teeth (DMFT), and whole unstimulated saliva was collected and cultured for MS in the laboratory. The data were collected and subjected to statistical analysis using chi-square, Spearman's correlation, and logistic regression analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The prevalence of salivary MS in the children was 69%. A statistically significant correlation was found between the oral levels of MS in nonworking and working mother-child pairs. Regression analysis showed that those children who feed by bottle for more than 12 months, have daily sweet intake, have sugars in feeding bottle and have higher defts were more likely to have mutans score of 1 or 2.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The mother, working or nonworking, being the primary care provider is the major source of transmission of MS to their child irrespective of the amount of time spent with them.
  Sharma P, Goswami M, Singh D, Massod SS, Nganba K. Correlation ofStreptococcus mutanscount in Mother-child Pair of Working and Nonworking Mothers: A Cross-sectional Study. Int J Clin Pediatr Dent 2016;9(4):342-348.
authors.affiliation: Postgraduate Student, Department of Pedodontics, I.T.S Dental College, Ghaziabad Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Priyanka
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.affiliation: Head, Department of Pedodontics, I.T.S Dental College, Ghaziabad Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Mousumi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Goswami
authors.affiliation: Reader, Department of Pedodontics, I.T.S Dental College, Ghaziabad Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Darrel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.affiliation: Student, Department of Pedodontics, I.T.S Dental College, Ghaziabad Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Shahid S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Massod
authors.affiliation: Student, Department of Pedodontics, I.T.S Dental College, Ghaziabad Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Khundrakpam
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nganba
keywords: Mother-child pairs; Streptococcus mutans; Vertical transmission.