The caries experience was associated with gender, snack habits, dental visit habits, and oral hygiene status.
Information on sex, dental health behavior (such as toothbrushing frequency, use of fluoride, and pattern of dental care), between-meal snack habits, breastfeeding duration, paternal and maternal educational levels, maternal smoking during pregnancy, and secondhand smoke exposure at home were obtained from a structured self-administered questionnaire.
Think about your snack habits.
A daily snacking habit was common, and no significant difference was found between boys and girls.
The independent variables included sex, education level of parents, caretaker, home place, child's snacking habit, bottle-feeding habit, tooth-brushing practice and dental visits.
The questionnaire was used to collect information on the backgrounds (gender, address), oral health-related behaviours (snacking habit, tooth-brushing practice, and dental visits), and oral-health knowledge of the surveyed students, which was used in previous studies [ 15- 17].
Results of this study show a correlation between dental caries of the Hong Kong preschool children and their snacking habit which is in agreement with those of other studies [ 8, 17].
For the timebeing, researchers advise filmgoers with snacking habits to stock up on healthy snacks such as vegetables.
What sort of parental neglect lead to the development of such anarchic snacking habits in the first place?
