Open AccessRole of diet in ECC affected South Indian children assessed by the HEI-2005: A pilot study
Author(s) -
Pragyna Priyadarshini,
Deepa Gurunathan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_851_19
Subject(s) - medicine , early childhood caries , logistic regression , descriptive statistics , oral health , environmental health , cross sectional study , calorie , multivariate analysis , anthropometry , demography , dentistry , gerontology , statistics , mathematics , pathology , sociology , endocrinology
"Early Childhood Caries"(ECC) is a serious global oral health problem affecting children of 71 months of age or younger. ECC has a multifactorial model of causation and diet imparts an intricately specific effect.