Analysis of Environmental and Person-Oriented Factors Influence on Dental Caries Intensity among Children Population of Transcarpathia.

Abstract

Abstract Objective of the research was to analyze the impact of environmental and person-oriented factors on dental caries intensity trends among different age groups of children living at the ecologically stressed zone of Transcarpathia region with fluorine and iodine deficiency. Retrospective design of the study covered two phases: 1) clinical evaluation of dental patients of childhood age, who were permanent residents of Transcarpathia with the aim of caries intensity level registration; 2) analysis of answers collected after adapted questionnaire survey among clinically evaluated children with the aim to verify potential subjectively noted risk factors. Considering inclusion and exclusion criteria study sample was formed out of 842 participants. Odds ratio for caries intensity increase tendency under the influence of low frequency of oral hygiene care was OR=1.56 (95% CI: 1.32-1.79), under the influence of frequent stressful situations – OR=1.12 (95% CI: 1.05-1.23), under the influence of deficiency of vitamins in the daily diet – OR=1.39 (95% CI: 1.25-1.76), under the influence of low frequency of food consumption per day – OR=1.49 (95% CI: 1.28-1.87), under the influence of frequent sugar snacks per day – OR=1.61 (95% CI: 1.47-1.93) among overall sample. Obtained results demonstrated that caries intensity increase trend shown changeable pattern of dependencies regarding different factors of influence in different age and gender groups, thus realization of different prevention strategies among different age and gender categories of children living within ecologically-stressed zone could be reasoned, but specific argumentation of such need to be validated as perspective hypothesis in further in-depth studies.