Parental Awareness to Baby Bottle Tooth Decay in India

Ashish Choudhary; Sumit Kumar; Pramod Kumar Yadav; Divya Pandya; Gaurav Mishra

doi:10.36437/ijdrd.2022.4.1.I

Ashish Choudhary Reader, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Kusum Devi Sunderlal Dugar Jain Dental College and Hospital, Kolkata, India.
Sumit Kumar Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Faculty of Dental Sciences, King George Medical University, Lucknow, India.
Pramod Kumar Yadav Assistant Professor, Department of Periodontics & community dentistry, Dr Z A Dental College, AMU, Aligarh, India.
Divya Pandya Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Kusum Devi Sunderlal Dugar Jain Dental College and Hospital, Kolkata, India.
Gaurav Mishra Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Faculty of Dental Sciences, King George Medical University, Lucknow, India.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36437/ijdrd.2022.4.1.I

Keywords: Baby Bottle, Parental Awareness, Tooth Decay (BBTD)

Abstract

Background: Parents’ lifestyles and understanding of oral health have been found to influence the status of their children’s oral health. Baby Bottle Tooth Decay is one of the major causes of pain and infection in the oral cavity of children at an early age and may result in the necessity of tooth extractions before the age of exfoliation of primary teeth leading to other dental problems in the future and costly dental treatment during early ages.

Methodology: This was a cross-sectional study carried out at hospitals and malls in Lucknow and Kolkata city. Data was collected using a self-structured questionnaire, from parents of young children about their knowledge pertaining to the occurrence and prevention of baby bottle tooth decay. The minimum sample size of 385 was calculated. However, the study included 705 participants.

Results: Knowledge about signs and symptoms and preventive measures of baby bottle tooth decay among their parents were found to be insufficient in this study.

Conclusion: Oral health programs focusing on Baby Bottle Tooth Decay should be planned for maternal wards of hospitals and playschools across the country, to enable the new parents, to prevent the occurrence of tooth decay among young children.

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