Relationship between body mass index and dental caries in 13–15-year-old school children of government and private schools in Bengaluru City | Zendy

V. Syamkumar | Zendy; Arun Thomas | Zendy; Sajna Oommen | Zendy; S Aswin | Zendy; P. J. Swathy Anand | Zendy; V Mathew | Zendy

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Relationship 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,

P. J. Swathy Anand,

V 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 , dentistry , pediatrics , psychology , statistics , 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.

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