The relationship between healthful eating practices and dental caries in children aged 2–5 years in the United States, 1988–1994

Dye, Bruce A.; Shenkin, Jonathan D.; Ogden, Cynthia L.; Marshall, Teresa A.; Levy, Steve M; Kanellis, Michael J.

doi:10.14219/jada.archive.2004.0021

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“…The probable explanation for this is the ease of implementation, objectivity, and comparability with a BMI reference standard, especially in population studies. 14 The limitation of this index, which does not differentiate between lean body mass and fat mass and therefore often produces false positive results, must be considered prior to the study. The non-use of DXA as a more appropriate method to measure obesity is probably due to the examination cost, which often makes it impossible to use in population studies.…”

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“…14 However, the presence of a common factor such as a high-sugar diet, caused by the ingestion of food such as soft drinks, cake, and ice cream, seems to increase the probability of both diseases and seems to be the most acceptable theory to explain the relationship between obesity and dental caries. 21 The biggest challenge in understanding this relationship is to measure the possible confounding variables (diet and income) and effect modifi ers (age, oral hygiene habits and use of fl uoridated water) in a standardized manner.…”

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Obesity and dental caries: systematic review

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OBJECTIVE Identifying, through a systematic literature review, evidence of a possible association between obesity and dental caries. METHODS A search of articles published between 2005 and January 2012 was performed in the Medline/PubMed, LILACS and Web of Science databases. The quality of scientific evidence of the selected articles was assessed by the items proposed for observational studies in the Downs & Black instrument. RESULTS Initially, 537 references were found; after checking the titles and abstracts by two independent researchers, twenty-eight articles were selected for complete reading. Ten of them that assessed the primary and/or permanent dentition observed a positive association between obesity and dental caries and one study found an inverse association. According to the Downs & Black classification, thirteen articles with good scientific evidence were found. CONCLUSIONS The present review did not find sufficient evidence regarding the association between obesity and dental caries, and it did not clarify the possible role of diet and other possible effect modifiers on this association.

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Obesity and dental caries: systematic review

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“…In the entire US population, soft drink intake has increased over the last two decades while dairy product consumption has declined. 39,[44][45][46]60,61,[64][65][66][67] However, despite such reports, no correlation was seen between decreased calcium intake and soft drink consumption in adolescent girls using data from the US CSFII (1994)(1995)(1996). 68 Reporting an observational study of 268 children born in western Sydney (the Nepean Study), Tam et al found increased sweet drink intakes did not displace milk consumption.…”

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Contemporary fluid intake and dental caries in Australian children

Messer

2011

Australian Dental Journal

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In Australia, caries experience of 6-year-old and 12-year-old children has increased since the mid to late 1990s. Previously, caries rates had declined, attributable to community water fluoridation. The recent caries increase has been attributed speculatively to changes in fluid intake, including increased consumption of sweet drinks and bottled waters. Increasing urbanization and globalization have altered children's diets worldwide, promoting availability and access to processed foods and sweet drinks. Studies in Australia and internationally have demonstrated significant associations between sweet drink intake and caries experience. Despite widespread fluoride availability in contemporary Australian society, the relationship between sugar consumption and caries development continues and restricting sugar intake remains key to caries prevention. Caries risk assessment should be included in treatment planning for all children; parents should be advised of their child's risk level and given information on oral health promotion. Readily-implemented caries risk assessment tools applicable to parents and clinicians are now available. Public health information should increase awareness that consuming sweet drinks can have deleterious effects on the dentition as well as the potential for promoting systemic disease. Restricting sales of sweet drinks and sweet foods and providing healthy food and drinks for purchase in schools is paramount.

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“…Milk consumption has decreased whereas the consumption of soft drinks, juices, non-citric beverages and carbohydrates has increased. 70,82 These habits have been correlated with a higher prevalence of ECC. 82 The duration of breastfeeding and exclusive breastfeeding is longer in women from upper social classes, in those who are better educated, [83][84][85] in older mothers and in those with a steady relationship 52 and, dental hygiene is also more appropriate in this group 12,39 in opposition to underprivileged classes, in which ECC is more common.…”

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“…65 As may be observed, most authors did not find a correlation between ECC and breastfeeding or with its duration. 12,[25][26][27]40,[65][66][67][68][69][70] The obtained results often are contradictory and the findings were not always reproduced. The same was observed by Valaitis et al in a systematic review of 151 articles.…”

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confidence: 99%