OBJECTIVE Early childhood caries (ECC) has become a prevalent public health problem among Chinese preschool children. The bacterial microflora is considered to be an important factor in the formation and progress of dental caries. However, high-throughput and large-scale studies of the primary dentition are lacking. The present study aimed to compare oral microbial profiles between children wit...

INTRODUCTION Despite a decline in its prevalence worldwide, dental caries remains one of the most common chronic diseases in childhood (Mouradian, 2001). Moreover, its distribution has become more polar with most of the disease being experienced by certain vulnerable groups, such as pre-school-aged children, for whom reductions in caries experience have not been as marked as in other age groups...

BACKGROUND The perceptions of parents and children regarding oral health are useful to oral public health and clinical practice in pediatric dentistry. The primary aim of the present study was to evaluate the correlation between the total and item scores of the Scale of Oral Health Outcomes for Five-Year-Old Children (SOHO-5) (parental version and child's self-reports) and the Early Childhood O...

WHO defined low birth weight (regardless of the gestational age ) as weighing less than 2500g.. Low birth weight neonates are further subdivided into very low birth weight infants, with birth weights less than 1500g and extremely low birth weight infants, with birth weights less than 1000g. Early childhood caries due to malnutrition is still a common dental health problem in developing countrie...

 Background: Early Childhood Caries (ECC) in the earliest stage is preventable. The studies indicate oral bacteria play an important role in pathogenesis of dental caries. According to high prevalence of ECC, alternative therapies should be explored in order to reduce the occurrence of it. Aim: This study aims to assess the effectiveness of a product containing Povidone Iodine 10% and Sodium Fl...

Early childhood caries is a multifactorial disease that severely degrades the primary maxillary incisors and molars in child aged 71 months or younger. It can cause reduced masticatory efficiency, loss of vertical dimension, development speech problems, esthetic-functional problems such as malocclusion space loss, psychological compromise behavioral child. The treatment decayed teeth presents s...