Open AccessRelationship between body mass index and dental caries in 13–15-year-old school children of government and private schools in Bengaluru City
Author(s) -
V Syamkumar,
Arun Thomas,
Sajna Oommen,
S Aswin,
PJ Swathy Anand,
Vinod Babu Mathew
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of pharmacy and bioallied sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-4879
pISSN - 0975-7406
DOI - 10.4103/jpbs.jpbs_824_20
Subject(s) - overweight , body mass index , private school , medicine , percentile , government (linguistics) , demography , obesity , pediatrics , dentistry , statistics , psychology , mathematics education , mathematics , linguistics , philosophy , pathology , sociology
The aim of the study was to assess the correlation between body mass index (BMI) and dental caries of 13-15-years-old school children in urban Bangalore and to compare the correlation between BMI and dental decay amongst government and private school children of age group 13-15 years in Bangalore city.