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- Title
Diet patterns and dental caries in third grade U. S. children.
- Authors
Bagramian, Robert A.; Jenny, Joanna; Frazier, P. Jean; Proshek, John M.
- Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate further the relationship between in-take of sucrose-containing foods and the prevalence of caries in a natural population of children. The study population was made up of 958 Caucasian third grade children from Minneapolis. Diet and brushing information was collected through personal interviews with the children. Four methods of coding diet information were used: (1) Confection Counting (the number of sucrose-containing items consumed during a 24-hour period); (2) Exposure Counting (to collapse sucrose-containing items consumed in a 30-mitt interval into one sucrose exposure); (3) Minneapolis Oral Retention Estimate (an assessment of usual consumption, 24-hour recall, brushing and consumption of water to estimate likelihood that the individual had sucrose in the oral cavity during a typical day); and (4) "Hidden" Sugar Estimate (utilization of food composition tables to estimate in teaspoons how much sucrose was consumed during a 24-hour period). The study shows few, if any, relationships existing between consumption of sucrose-containing foods and del or DMF teeth in both mealtime and between-meal periods.
- Subjects
UNITED States; DENTAL caries; FOOD composition; DIET; SCHOOL children; INTERVIEWING
- Publication
Community Dentistry & Oral Epidemiology, 1974, Vol 2, Issue 5, p208
- ISSN
0301-5661
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1600-0528.1974.tb01654.x