Dental Carries in Larkana and Peshawar Children’s: Effect of Body Mass Index using Poisson Regression Model
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Dental caries or tooth decay is a breakdown of teeth due to bacterial activities. This phenomenon develops eating problem and produce pain. One of the damages of dental caries in bacterial breakdown is the hard tissues. It may be due to the acid produced from sweet foods onto the tooth surface. Dental caries becomes a major public health concern. One study reports that more than 80% population is affecting with this problem [1]. According to WHO reports 60 – 90% of school children got effected with this disease [2]. A study conducted in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, showed that the prevalence of dental caries in preschool children was found about 69% [3]. Another study conducted in India reported that the prevalence of dental caries among children of rural Bundelkhand region was 82.62% [4]. In Pakistan one study conducted for randomly selected schools of Sargodha district showed the prevalence of dental caries was about 45% [5]. A study conducted in Karachi for up to seventy one month old children showed the prevalence of 23.5% for Early Childhood Caries [6]. Studies showed that Body Mass Index (BMI) which derives from the values of mass and weight of an individual gives the association with many diseases including dental caries. A study conducted in Taif University of outpatient clinic showed that 42.2% of subjects with high prevalence of dental caries were either overweight or obese [7]. A study of Thessaloniki, Greece showed that overweight children with 1.36 times and obese children with 1.99 times were more likely to have higher dmft than normal weight children [8]. A significant association between dental caries and BMI was reported in a study of Bhopal, India [9]. However, study conducted in Khyber Pakhtun Khwa, Pakistan on adult population, did not show any association of dental caries with BMI [10]. A study of US children of aged 2 to 6 years old showed a significant association of BMI for age associated dental carries severity in the permanent teeth using weighted multiple regression model for geometric mean [11]. *Corresponding author: Syed Adnan Ali, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan, Tel: +92-346-279-8861; E-mail: [email protected]
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