Prevalence of the Precocious Caries in Infancy in Children of 6 the 36 Months in Public Day-Care Centers of Caruaru/PE, Brazil

Objective: Describe the prevalence of the precocious caries in infancy in children of 6 the 36 months in public day-care centers of Caruaru-PE, and its association with characteristics of the child, as well as analyzing the knowledge of the responsible parents or related the buccal health. Method: The study drawing is of the type transversal cut (to cross-over). Had been collected through information on knowledge related to the buccal health, as well as had been examined to the dental conditions of the children and through the Sinasc the characteristics of the gestation, the childbirth and the child had been collected. For the tests of association for chi-squared (x2) to evaluate the relationship between the dependent variable (ceo-d) and the independent variable, the Program was used Epi-info version 6.04. Results: Of the total of 168 studied children, on average examined 14.65 teeth for child. Of these 62.3% were healthy and carious only 3.3%. 92.9% of the parents had knowledge of that the teeth of its children were of milk and knew of its importance; 78.6% already brushed teeth of the children; 74.4% knew as they were the teeth of the children, although only 16.2% to identify carie would indent and 6.0% to tell that the son had tooth ache. But 12.5% had been to the dentist, being 27.3% for revision and control. Of 22.6% of the children who had caries, 79.4% of them consumed nocturnal baby’s bottle, being that 40.7% of them sweetened; 30.4% consumed candies between the meals increasing this consumption to the 25 months of age. Conclusion: The dental caries increases in function of the age in consequence of the increase of the eruption tooth number and the consumption of sugar in the diet.