Association between morning feeding and other demographic factors with dental caries in 9 years old, Zahedan students

Abstract   Background and Aims: Dental caries is a multi-factorial disease Demographic factors, also diet particularly breakfast  which  is an important meal are  factors affecting the level of dental caries. The purpose of this study was investigation  relationship between morning feeding and other demographic factors with  tooth decay in  9 years old Zahedan students Materials and Methods: In This descriptive – analytical and cross-sectional study, Zahedan city  divided into four regions based on population table.From each region one public and private school (boy &girl), randomly selected,. for 400 boy& girl students  9 years old was filled the questionnaire about demographic factors, and   breakfast consumption  and oral examination was done for evaluation of  dmft, DMFT and OHI-s criterias by a dentist  . Data  were analyzed  with  soft ware  spss 21  and t-test , ANOVA and Pearson correlation.. Results: The  Mean dmft, DMFT in children served breakfast (5.22±2.5 and 1.34±1.4 ( and in  children  did not consume breakfast (4.5±2.5 and 1.39±1.44) had no significant difference (p>0.05) but  the motherchr('39')s occupation and, father education had significant correlation  with DMFT and  mother  education had significant correlation with  DMFT,,dmft (P <0.05) Conclusion: breakfast  consumption and its type  was not effective in reducing the level of dental caries. Children with educated mothers had  low permanent and  insidious dental caries and tooth decay  was significantly  lower in children with  employer or teacher  mothers and    educated fathers  .