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ArticleEuropean archives of paediatric dentistry : official journal of the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry2024

Assessment of overall caries risk and mode of birth delivery in infants and children with and without ECC: a cross-sectional study.

G Felsypremila, K C Vignesh, M S Muthu, C D Mohanapriya, Charmine Pricilla, T Gayathri

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  1. Caries Risk Assessment in Children with Early Childhood Caries and Late Childhood Caries.International journal of clinical pediatric dentistry · 2025
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G Felsypremila *Department of Clinical Research, Sri Ramachandra Faculty of Clinical Research, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed to be University), Chennai, India.
K C Vignesh *Centre for Early Childhood Caries Research, Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, Sri Ramachandra Dental College and Hospital, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed to be University), Porur, Chennai, India. drkcvignesh@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7117-7925
M S MuthuCentre for Early Childhood Caries Research, Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, Sri Ramachandra Dental College and Hospital, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed to be University), Porur, Chennai, India.
C D MohanapriyaDepartment of Human Genetics, Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed to be University), Chennai, India.
Charmine PricillaICMR Senior Research Fellow (SRF), Central Research Facility, Faculty of Clinical Research, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed to be University), Chennai, India.
T GayathriDepartment of Allied Health Sciences, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed to be University), Chennai, India.

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purposeThe study assessed the caries risk in infants and children with and without early childhood caries (ECC) using American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry Caries Risk Assessment Tool (AAPD CRAT) and identified the association between caries risk and mode of birth delivery.

methodsThis cross-sectional study included 96 infants and children with all maxillary and mandibular primary anterior teeth and at least two primary molars erupted clinically in the oral cavity. The details on the mode of birth delivery were noted in a preformed template along with the demographic details, followed by caries risk assessment (CRA) to assess the caries risk of an individual. The outcome assessment for overall caries risk was performed for the ECC and non-ECC group and compared against the mode of birth delivery. Descriptive statistics were performed for all the study variables (gender, overall caries risk, mode of birth delivery, and term of delivery). The Chi-square test was used to compare the categorical variables between the two groups (ECC and non-ECC groups).

resultsThe high caries risk category contributed to 52.1% and 68.8% in the ECC and non-ECC groups, respectively. The prevalence of vaginal mode of delivery was 41.7% and 52.1% in the ECC and non-ECC groups, respectively. Caries risk increases with increasing age and the non-ECC group shows more risk (68.8%) than the ECC group. In comparison with the variables against the groups (ECC and non-ECC), Chi-square test revealed that only the term of delivery (p value = 0.035) and overall caries risk (p = 0.045) showed statistically significant difference.

conclusionThe proportion of high caries risk subjects was significantly more in the non-ECC groups. Children delivered by the C-section mode showed high caries risk (66.7%) when compared with the vaginal mode of delivery (53.3%). A validated CRAT for predicting caries risk is required.

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Delivery, ObstetricDental CariesChildChild, PreschoolCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHumansInfantMaleRisk AssessmentRisk FactorsTooth, DeciduousBirth deliveryCaries risk assessmentEarly childhood cariesRisk factorsStreptococcus mutans

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