Open AccessAssociation between early childhood caries and feeding practices among 3–5-year-old children of Indore, India
Author(s) -
Khushboo Barjatya,
Ullal Anand Nayak,
Ankur Vatsal
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of the indian society of pedodontics and preventive dentistry/journal of indian society of pedodontics and preventive dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.378
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1998-3905
pISSN - 0970-4388
DOI - 10.4103/jisppd.jisppd_60_20
Subject(s) - breastfeeding , socioeconomic status , early childhood caries , medicine , demography , logistic regression , cross sectional study , infant feeding , ethnic group , breast feeding , environmental health , pediatrics , dentistry , population , oral health , pathology , sociology , anthropology
The impact of early childhood caries (ECC) seen in infants and young children to the society is enormous. Most studies on ECC have been focused on specific ethnic and lower socioeconomic communities, however fewer studies are conducted in India as compared to other developed countries.