Mothers as facilitators of oral hygiene in early childhood

Mohebbi, Simin Zahra; Virtanen, Jorma I.; Murtomaa, Heikki; Vahid-Golpayegani, Mojtaba; Vehkalahti, Miira M.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-263x.2007.00861.x

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“…Some (21.8%) of the parents report that their children brush their own teeth, and it is recommended that the adults perform, or help, children less than five years of age with their brushing. These children are only partially capable of performing brushing, due to the lack of dexterity and knowledge necessary for proper cleaning 21 . This fact may have influenced the good state of oral health of the children in the present study, having few decayed, missing or filled teeth, since a statistically significant association was observed between the father/mother in the tooth brushing of the children having a low dmft index.…”

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Oral health education in school: parents' attitudes and prevalence of caries in children

Garbín

Soares

Dócusse

et al. 2015

Rev. odontol. UNESP

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ResumoIntrodução: Promoção de saúde bucal para as crianças é de grande importância, além da motivação dos pais para adoção de atitudes necessárias à manutenção da saúde dos seus filhos. Objetivo: Avaliar atitude dos pais e sobre a saúde bucal dos seus filhos e verificar a prevalência de cárie dentária das crianças. Material e método: Estudo transversal, analítico, realizado com pais e pré-escolares das Escolas de Educação Básica de Araçatuba. Para coleta de dados foi utilizado um instrumento com questões para avaliar a atitude dos pais em relação à saúde bucal dos seus filhos. Foi realizado exame clínico bucal das crianças, para verificar do índice de ceo-d e IHOS. Os dados coletados foram analisados no software SPSS 21.0. Resultado: A condição de saúde bucal das crianças era boa, média do ceo-d 0,68 (Desvio padrão= 1,70). A maioria das crianças apresentou um índice de higiene oral médio (1,51 IHOS, dp=0,48). A atitude dos pais relacionada à saúde bucal não foram muito adequadas, já que muitos não utilizavam fio dental na higienização dos seus filhos, as crianças faziam uso de mamadeira e não realizavam escovação após a alimentação. O consumo de açúcar esteve associado à presença de placa dentária nas crianças (p=0,05). No entanto, a prática de escovação dentária era realizada na maioria dos casos pelos pais e esteve associada ao bom índice de ceo-d das crianças (p=0,04). Conclusão: A condição de saúde bucal das crianças no estudo era boa, porém as atitudes relacionadas à saúde bucal realizadas pelos pais não foram adequadas.Descritores: Saúde bucal; atitude; pré-escolar, educação em saúde. ABSTRACT Introduction:The promotion of oral health in children is highly important, as well as parents' motivation to adopt the attitudes necessary for the maintenance of the health of their children. Objective: To evaluate parents' attitudes about their children's oral health and to determine the prevalence of dental caries. Material and method: A cross-sectional analytical study, conducted with parents and preschoolers from the elementary schools in Araçatuba. A formal instrument was used to collect data, in order to evaluate parents' attitudes regarding their children's oral health. A clinical oral exam was performed in order to determine the decayed, missing and filled teeth (dmft) and Index of Oral Health-Simplified (IOH-S). The collected data were analyzed using the SPSS 21.0 software. Result: The state of the children's oral health was good; the mean of the decayed, missing and filled teeth (dmft) was 0.68 (Standard deviation = 1.70). Most of the children presented a mean index of oral hygiene (IOHS = 1.51, Standard deviation = 0.48). The parents' attitudes related to oral health were not very good. Many of them did not floss their children's teeth; the bottle-fed children did not brush after feeding. The consumption of sugar was associated with the presence of dental plaque in the children (p=0.05). Nevertheless, in most cases, tooth brushing was performed by the parents and was associated with a good dmft index in th...

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Oral health education in school: parents' attitudes and prevalence of caries in children

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Dócusse

et al. 2015

Rev. odontol. UNESP

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“…Cleaning a child's mouth should begin before teeth erupt and tooth brushing is recommended when the first tooth erupts at least once daily till 2 years and subsequently twice daily (Berg & Slayton, 2009). Generally, mothers with higher confidence in brushing their children's teeth and with higher frequency of brushing themselves had children with cleaner teeth (Gussy et al, 2008;Mohebbi et al, 2008). Those children who started tooth brushing earlier also have less caries (Chan et al, 2002).…”

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“…Tooth brushing activity fell far short of professional expectations in parents and toddlers when observed using home-based videotaped sessions, although parents thought the sessions were effective in achieving clean teeth (Zeedyk et al, 2005). Hence, improving oral hygiene in early childhood requires that mothers' own tooth brushing habits and their infant oral cleaning skills are improved (Mohebbi et al, 2008). Infant feeding practices were also found to be poor in South East-Asian countries like Taiwan (Tsai et al, 2006), Myanmar (van Palenstein Helderman et al, 2006) and Korea (Jin et al, 2003) with increased indulgence to between-meal snacks, sweetened solution in nursing bottle, sweets and prechewed rice.…”

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Early Childhood Caries: Parent’s Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Towards Its Prevention in Malaysia

Mani¹,

John²,

Wei³

et al. 2012

Oral Health Care - Pediatric, Research, Epidemiology and Clinical Practices

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“…Other studies have also found association between strong maternal SOC and good oral hygiene habits of adolescents [3,7]. Association between oral hygiene of parents and oral hygiene of their children has been demonstrated, and parents who have care of their own oral hygiene have greater care with the oral hygiene of their children [26], considering that the baby directly depends on the supervision of parents for the performance of their oral hygiene [27].…”

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Relationship Between Mother’s Sense of Coherence and Oral Health of Babies aged 6-36 Months: APilot Study

Sá-Pinto

Coelho

Barbosa

et al. 2016

Pesqui. bras. odontopediatria clín. integr.

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Objective: To evaluate the association between oral health of babies aged 6-36 months and the Mother's Sense of Coherence (SOC). Material and Methods: A cross-sectional pilot study was conducted in the city of Diamantina -MG with a convenience sample of 32 mothers and their babies, attended at the Dental Clinic for Babies at the Federal University of the Vales do Jequitinhonha and Mucuri. The survey included the filling of dental records of babies, a questionnaire given to the mothers about sociodemographic and oral hygiene of their babies, and self-administered SOC-13. Babies were submitted to a clinical intra-oral examination for the detection of dental caries and initial lesions according to World Health Organization (WHO) criteria. Data were analyzed by the t test and Pearson's correlation (p<0.05). The size effect calculation proposed by Cohen was used to test the clinical significance of results. Results: The prevalence of dental caries was 40.0%. Maternal SOC had a variation between 35 and 59, with mean score of 47.7 (SD = 6.09). The monthly family income was more than two minimum wages for 51.6% of families. There was no statistically significant association between dental caries and maternal SOC (p = 0.646). Regarding monthly family income, there was a statistically significant association with maternal SOC (p = 0.005). Maternal SOC was also significantly associated with nocturnal oral hygiene of babies (p = 0.008). Conclusion: The mother's sense of coherence was not associated with dental caries and was associated with nocturnal oral hygiene of babies and with family monthly income.

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Mothers as facilitators of oral hygiene in early childhood

Abstract: To improve oral hygiene in early childhood, more emphasis should be placed on mothers' own toothbrushing and their skills in their children's oral cleaning.

Cited by 76 publications

References 13 publications

Oral health education in school: parents' attitudes and prevalence of caries in children

Oral health education in school: parents' attitudes and prevalence of caries in children

Early Childhood Caries: Parent’s Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Towards Its Prevention in Malaysia

Relationship Between Mother’s Sense of Coherence and Oral Health of Babies aged 6-36 Months: APilot Study

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