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Prevalence of Early Childhood Caries Among Patients Visiting A Private Dental Hospital
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SARVESH J, MAHESH RAMAKRISHNAN, MURUGAIYAN ARUN
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Early childhood caries is a serious public health problem in both developing and industrialized countries. Early childhood caries is defined as the presence of one or more decayed (non-cavitated or cavitated lesions), missing teeth (due to caries), or filled tooth surfaces in any primary tooth in a child 72 of months age or younger. The aim of the study was to identify the prevalence of early childhood caries among patients visiting a private dental hospital. The Participants were randomly selected for the study, inclusive criteria for the participants was the patients between the age of 1 to 6 years who reported between June 2019 to March 2020 to a private Dental College and Hospital Chennai, the presence of caries tooth was evaluated among the patients. Results showed that the prevalence of early childhood caries was 89.96%, which was 55.49% among males and 44.51% among females and the mandibular posteriors are the teeth which are commonly affected in early childhood caries among both males ( 21.57% ) and females (18.21% ) and was seen maximum in 6 years of age, p value 0.00 (< 0.05 ), there is a statistically significant association between age and the teeth involved in early childhood caries. From the present study we can conclude that the prevalence of early childhood caries was 89.96% and generally the posterior teeth of both maxilla and mandible are affected more compared to the anterior teeth, but mandibular posterior teeth are the most commonly affected in early childhood caries
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Prevalence; Early childhood caries; Teeth involved; males and females
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2020.12.01.308
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