Prevalence of Dental Caries in the First Molars in Schoolchildren in the Municipality of Durango and Its Relationship With Socioeconomic Factors

Abstract

the one with the highest prevalence of caries. Socioeconomic factors were not significantly related to molar caries disease; however, they were considered in the multivariate analysis together with other variables, which allowed us to find some of them significantly related to the ordinal variable dependent on the clune index, which is a indicator of dental caries disease. In addition, parental knowledge about caries was significantly associated with the frequency of the disease, so it is concluded that this factor allows reducing the prevalence of caries.