Cárie dental e consumo de a？úcar em crian？as assistidas por creche pública

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.