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- Title
Nutritional status, tooth wear and quality of life in Brazilian schoolchildren.
- Authors
de Andrade, Francisco Juliherme Pires; de Carvalho Sales-Peres, André; de Moura-Grec, Patricia Garcia; Abel Mapengo, Marta Artemisa; Sales-Peres, Arsenio; de Carvalho Sales-Peres, Sílvia Helena; Andrade, Francisco Juliherme Pires de; Sales-Peres, André de Carvalho; Moura-Grec, Patricia Garcia de; Mapengo, Marta Artemisa Abel; Sales-Peres, Sílvia Helena de Carvalho
- Abstract
<bold>Objective: </bold>To evaluate the correlation among nutritional status, tooth wear and quality of life in Brazilian schoolchildren.<bold>Design: </bold>The study followed a cross-sectional design. Nutritional status was measured via anthropometry using BMI and tooth wear was measured using the Dental Wear Index; both these assessments were carried out by a trained recorder according to standard criteria. A modified version of the Child Oral Impacts on Daily Performances was used to assess quality of life.<bold>Setting: </bold>City of Bauru, in Brazil.<bold>Subjects: </bold>A cluster sample of 396 schoolchildren (194 boys and 202 girls) aged 7-10 years.<bold>Results: </bold>The anthropometric assessment showed similar situations for both sexes regarding underweight (31·40 % in boys and 30·20 % in girls) and overweight/obesity (33·96 % in boys and 33·17 % in girls). The underweight children showed a greater severity of tooth wear in the primary teeth (OR=0·72; CI 0·36, 1·42), although in the permanent dentition the obese children had a greater severity of tooth wear (OR=1·42; 95 % CI 0·31, 6·55). The tooth wear was correlated with age for both dentitions.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>Tooth wear in the primary and permanent dentition may be related to nutritional status. Tooth wear and obesity did not have a significant impact on the schoolchildren's perception of quality of life.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; TOOTH abrasion; SCHOOL children; CHILD nutrition; BODY mass index; QUALITY of life; QUESTIONNAIRES; CROSS-sectional method; NUTRITIONAL status
- Publication
Public Health Nutrition, 2016, Vol 19, Issue 8, p1479
- ISSN
1368-9800
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1017/S1368980015002876