Objective: To investigate the association between child’s daytime caring person and risk for higher early childhood caries (ECC) experience. Material and Methods: The sample consisted of all clinical records (census) of children (0-3 years old) attended in a public dental clinic, which contained information about caries experience and child’s daytime caring person (mother, grandmother or others). Caries experience was dichotomized as dmft ≤ 2 or dmft 2. Data were analyzed by the chi-square (α = 0.05). Binary logistic regression models were built. Results: From a total of 310 children, 19% of children had the grandmother as daytime caring person. There was no association between child’s daytime caring person and caries experience (p=0.32). Logistic regression analysis showed that low daytime caregiver schooling (OR: 5.76 95%CI 1.18-28.18; p=0.02) and child’s age (OR: 1.14 95% CI 1.09-1.19; p=0.00) were risk factors, and breastfeeding duration ( 9 months – OR: 0.38 95% CI 0.21-0.68; p=0.00), no nocturnal feeding (OR: 0.50 95% CI 0.27-0.91; p=0.02), and absence of sugar consumption between main meals (OR: 0.50 95% CI 0.28- 0.89; p=0.02) were protection factors for ECC. Conclusion: A higher caries experience in early childhood is not associated to child’s daytime caring person. On the other hand, the higher caries experience is associated with low caregiver schooling and older children.
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机译：目的：探讨儿童白天关怀人员与高等幼儿龋病（ECC）经验的危险。材料和方法：样品由公共牙科诊所中的儿童（0-3岁）的所有临床记录（人口普查）组成，其中包含有关龋齿经验和儿童白天关怀人（母亲，祖母或其他人）的信息。龋齿经验与DMFT≤2或DMFT> 2分二分。通过Chi-Square（α= 0.05）分析数据。建立了二进制逻辑回归模型。结果：从总共310名儿童，19％的孩子作为白天的关怀人。儿童白天关怀人和龋齿经验之间没有关联（P = 0.32）。 Logistic回归分析表明，低日间照顾者教育（或：5.76 95％CI 1.18-28.18; P = 0.02）和儿童年龄（或：1.14 95％CI 1.09-1.19; p = 0.00）是风险因素，以及母乳喂养持续时间（ > 9个月 - 或：0.38 95％CI 0.21-0.68; p = 0.00），无夜间饲料（或：0.50 95％CI 0.27-0.91; p = 0.02），并且在主餐之间没有糖耗（或：0.50 95％CI 0.28- 0.89; p = 0.02）是ECC的保护因素。结论：童年早期的龋齿经验与儿童白天关怀的人无关。另一方面，较高的龋齿经验与低理位教育和老年人有关。
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