%0 Journal Article
%T C¨¢rie dental e consumo de a£¿¨²car em crian£¿as assistidas por creche p¨²blica
%A LEITE
%A Tatiana Andrade
%A PAULA
%A Marcelo Sabioni de
%A RIBEIRO
%A Rosangela Almeida
%A LEITE
%A Isabel Cristina Gon£¿alves
%J Revista de Odontologia da Universidade de S£¿o Paulo
%D 1999
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%R 10.1590/S0103-06631999000100005
%X this study determined the sugar consumption and its relationship to caries development in a group of 51 public nursery school children (mean age = 48 months). the dmf-t score (number of decayed, missing and filled primary teeth) was recorded for each child. a four-day diary was obtained using the local observation method and the average sugar consumption was calculated. the mean dmf-t score was 2.75. from the 51 children examined, 15 were caries free (29.4%) and 36 (70.6%) had caries development. the average sugar consumption was 130g/day. an increase in the sugar consumption has been associated with a significant increase in the dmf-t score.
%K sucrose
%K dental carie
%K diet.
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