Severe early childhood caries and behavioural risk indicators among young children in Ajman, United Arab Emirates
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...1 % (5–6 years) in Ajman, United Arab Emirates [8], 36 % (35–71 months old) in a health facility in Brazil [9], 46 % (2–6 years) in the Inuvik region, Northwest Territories, Canada [10], and 56 % (mean age 42 months) in Cambodia [11]....
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...In agreement with previous studies on S-ECC in preschool children [2, 8, 10, 13, 14], this study found that lower socioeconomic status (no schooling of mother of child), risk behaviour (sleeping with a bottle at 30 months), and sub-optimal fluoridation of water supply (using drinking water from the rain in the household) were associated with S-ECC....
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...Factors associated with S-ECC have been identified in terms of 1) environmental risk factors, including lack of community water fluoridation [10], Body Mass Index (BMI) overweight [12], and maternal caries experience [11]; 2) sociocultural risk factors, including low socioeconomic status [8, 10, 13, 14], and being a single working mother [15]; 3) risk behaviours, including...
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...The prevalence of S-ECC in pre-school age children ranged from 0.8 % (6–71 months) in Nigeria [3], 2.7 % (36–71 months) in Italy [4], 6.5 % (3 year-olds) in Lithuania [5], 9.5 % (3–5 years) in Germany [2], 17.5 % (3–5 years old) in Trinidad [6], 27 % (2 year-olds) in a sample of African Americans [7], 31.1 % (5–6 years) in Ajman, United Arab Emirates [8], 36 % (35–71 months old) in a health facility in Brazil [9], 46 % (2–6 years) in the Inuvik region, Northwest Territories, Canada [10], and 56 % (mean age 42 months) in Cambodia [11]....
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...feeding and eating patterns such as excessive sugar intake [13, 14, 16, 17]; high snack consumption level [8, 13], breastfeeding ≥7 times daily [13], night-time breastfeeding [9], breastfeeding for more than 12 months [2, 4]; improper infant bottle-feeding habits (use of the nursing bottle in bed [2]; bottle use for liquids other than milk [13]; sleeping with a bottle containing carbohydrates during the night [4]; use of a bottle at night as a substitute for the pacifier and its use on demand during the day [9, 18]; Low-frequency toothbrushing and improper toothbrushing methods [4, 19], start of tooth brushing after the first anniversary [2] and 4) use of dental services [2] and those who utilised dental services only when they had a problem [8]....
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...other studies which is considered as symptomatic dental visits for ECC [31,32]....
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