Analisis hubungan karies gigi dan status gizi anak usia 10-11 tahun di SD Athirah, SDN 1 Bawakaraeng dan SDN 3 Bangkala

Abstract

Tooth decay is a serious problem in health of tooth and oral in Indonesia with finite prevalence up to 90.05% mainly at school age of children. Tooth decay can be caused by various factors, such as microorganism, food, tooth, saliva, and time, and supported by various other factors like race, age, gender, and genes. Children's dental caries is frequently caused by the habit to consume food cariogenic which does not only affect tooth but also the nutrition status of child. The aim of this analytic observational study was to know the prevalence of tooth decay, nutrition status, and the relation of dental caries and nutrition status at school age child ( 0.05 . This study involved 180 samples (60 samples from SD Athirah, SDN 1 Bawakaraeng, and SDN 3 Bangkala respectively). These three elementary schools in were selected based on their socio-economic status. SD Athirah represents the high socio­ economic status, SDN 1 Bawakaraeng the middle socio-economic status, and SDN 3 Bangkala the lowest status. Dental caries status was investigated with DMF-T index and nutrition status with BM/A index. Data were analyzed using chi-square test. Results of the study were as follows from the three schools, only SD Athirah shows relation between dental caries and nutrition status with its significance value 0.009 (p 0.05). The similar relation was found at SDN 3 Bangkala with p= 0.926 (p>0.05).