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Association of vitamin D and dental caries in children in Basra
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HIYAM SALAH AHMED, GHASSAN S.AHMED, ZAINAB ABDULKAREEM MAKTOOF
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Severe Early Childhood Caries (S-ECC) distresses well-being in childhood. The research aimed to define the relationship of vitamin D deficiency and SECC in pre-school age pediatric patients.This cross-sectional study was accomplished in Department of Pedodontics and Preventive / Basra University, college of dentistry. Two groups of 47 children aged from 2 and 6 years, each were involved in the study, and were categorized into two groups: cases and control.Intake of vitamin D was measured by analyzing 25-hydroxy vitamin D [25(OH)D] levels. The involvement of primary teeth caries was evaluated by index of decay- missing -filled teeth (dmft) and decayed-missing-filled rate (dmf). Statistical package for social science (SPSS-21) with descriptive statistics, Simple linear regression and coefficient of determination (R2 ) , the level of significance indicates in 0.05. The results demonstrate that there is moderate negative strong highly significant correlation between caries experience of primary teeth surfaces and teeth with vitamin D except between filling surfaces and vitamin D , the result is weak negative not significant correlation. In conclusion, improving child’s levels of vitamin D may be supplementary preventive concern to a lower risk of dental caries.
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vitamin Dental , Early childhood caries, Preschool children
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2020.12.04.528
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