- 期刊
台灣南部國小學童齲齒狀況與甜食、潔牙習慣之探討
Dental Caries, Sweetened-Snack Taking, and Oral Hygiene Practices among School Children in Southern Taiwan
摘要
The purposes of this study were to investigate the association of primary & permanent tooth caries status with eating sweetened food and dental hygiene practices. The subjects were sampled by stratified cluster random sampling using probability proportional to size. School children living in nine cities in southern Taiwan were the research population of this study. There were 1,727 effective subjects recruited. This study collected oral information by oral examination and questionnaires about diet, oral hygiene practices and experience of going to a dentist. The data was keyed into a database using Microsoft Access, and then we used JMP5.12 software for statistical analysis with t-test， chi-square test, ANOVA, stepwise multiple Regression. The caries prevalence was 52.76% and the deft index was 3.57. The children's dietary habits were associated with their oral health status. The children unlike to eat as dessert, candy, sweet food, that their oral health were better an those favorer desserts. The frequency of brushing one's teeth was found to be associated with his/her oral health statistically significantly (p＜0.05). It is an important key to oral health to reduce the school children consumption of sweetened food and to maintain good dental hygiene practices after intake sweetened.
並列摘要
The purposes of this study were to investigate the association of primary & permanent tooth caries status with eating sweetened food and dental hygiene practices. The subjects were sampled by stratified cluster random sampling using probability proportional to size. School children living in nine cities in southern Taiwan were the research population of this study. There were 1,727 effective subjects recruited. This study collected oral information by oral examination and questionnaires about diet, oral hygiene practices and experience of going to a dentist. The data was keyed into a database using Microsoft Access, and then we used JMP5.12 software for statistical analysis with t-test， chi-square test, ANOVA, stepwise multiple Regression. The caries prevalence was 52.76% and the deft index was 3.57. The children's dietary habits were associated with their oral health status. The children unlike to eat as dessert, candy, sweet food, that their oral health were better an those favorer desserts. The frequency of brushing one's teeth was found to be associated with his/her oral health statistically significantly (p＜0.05). It is an important key to oral health to reduce the school children consumption of sweetened food and to maintain good dental hygiene practices after intake sweetened.