Social and Behavioral Determinants for Early Childhood Caries among Preschool Children in India

Social and Behavioral Determinants for Early Childhood Caries among Preschool Children in India

Background and aims. Early Childhood Caries (ECC) is a public health problem with biological, social and behavioural determinants and the notion that the principal etiology is inappropriate feeding modalities is no longer tenable. Hence this study was undertaken to assess the relationship between EC...

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Main Authors: Jain, Mitali, Namdev, Ritu, Bodh, Meenakshi, Dutta, Samir, Singhal, Parul, Kumar, Arun
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Tabriz University of Medical Sciences 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4517304/
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spelling pubmed-45173042015-07-31 Social and Behavioral Determinants for Early Childhood Caries among Preschool Children in India Jain, Mitali Namdev, Ritu Bodh, Meenakshi Dutta, Samir Singhal, Parul Kumar, Arun Original Research Background and aims. Early Childhood Caries (ECC) is a public health problem with biological, social and behavioural determinants and the notion that the principal etiology is inappropriate feeding modalities is no longer tenable. Hence this study was undertaken to assess the relationship between ECC and socio-demographic factors, dietary habits, oral hygiene habits and parental characteristics. Tabriz University of Medical Sciences 2015 2015-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4517304/ /pubmed/26236439 http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/joddd.2014.023 Text en © 2015 by Tabriz University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author Jain, Mitali
Namdev, Ritu
Bodh, Meenakshi
Dutta, Samir
Singhal, Parul
Kumar, Arun
spellingShingle Jain, Mitali
Namdev, Ritu
Bodh, Meenakshi
Dutta, Samir
Singhal, Parul
Kumar, Arun
Social and Behavioral Determinants for Early Childhood Caries among Preschool Children in India
author_facet Jain, Mitali
Namdev, Ritu
Bodh, Meenakshi
Dutta, Samir
Singhal, Parul
Kumar, Arun
author_sort Jain, Mitali
title Social and Behavioral Determinants for Early Childhood Caries among Preschool Children in India
title_short Social and Behavioral Determinants for Early Childhood Caries among Preschool Children in India
title_full Social and Behavioral Determinants for Early Childhood Caries among Preschool Children in India
title_fullStr Social and Behavioral Determinants for Early Childhood Caries among Preschool Children in India
title_full_unstemmed Social and Behavioral Determinants for Early Childhood Caries among Preschool Children in India
title_sort social and behavioral determinants for early childhood caries among preschool children in india
description Background and aims. Early Childhood Caries (ECC) is a public health problem with biological, social and behavioural determinants and the notion that the principal etiology is inappropriate feeding modalities is no longer tenable. Hence this study was undertaken to assess the relationship between ECC and socio-demographic factors, dietary habits, oral hygiene habits and parental characteristics.
publisher Tabriz University of Medical Sciences
publishDate 2015
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4517304/
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