Early childhood caries and oral health care of Hong Kong preschool children.
January 17, 2019
|
Clinical, Cosmetic and Investigational Dentistry
|
Chen KJ, Gao SS, Duangthip D, Lo ECM, Chu CH.
|
11:27-35.
Sociodemographic background
There are a number of studies showing that socioeconomic factors are related to children’s dental caries experience.16,17,19,21 From 1993 to 2017, all oral health surveys concluded that household income was significantly associated with preschool children’s dental caries experience. Children from families with higher income and whose parents had a higher education level had lower dental caries prevalence.
These results indicated that social inequality exists amo