Obesity and dental caries in Saudi Arabia: a correlated study

Obesity and dental caries are two major global public health concerns. There have been conflicting reports about the relationship between obesity and dental caries. This study intends to examine the link between obesity and dental caries across the five regions of Saudi Arabia. The study involved 38...

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Published in:BMC oral health 2024-11, Vol.24 (1), p.1329-7, Article 1329
Main Authors: Alonazi, Meshal Aber, Algarni, Hmoud Ali, Alqarni, Mohammed Nasser Saleh, Almaeen, Saud Hamdan, Khattak, Osama, Iqbal, Azhar
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Body Mass Index
Care and treatment
Child
Children
Children & youth
Complications and side effects
Cross-Sectional Studies
Dental caries
Dental Caries - epidemiology
Diagnosis
DMF Index
Female
Health aspects
Humans
Male
Obesity
Obesity - complications
Obesity - epidemiology
Oral hygiene
Overweight
Parents & parenting
Prevalence
Public health
Regression analysis
Saudi Arabia - epidemiology
Schools
Statistical analysis
Teenagers
Teeth
Toothbrushing
Variance analysis
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Summary:Obesity and dental caries are two major global public health concerns. There have been conflicting reports about the relationship between obesity and dental caries. This study intends to examine the link between obesity and dental caries across the five regions of Saudi Arabia. The study involved 380 participants, which was a cross-sectional survey, with an age range of 6 to 14. We distributed a self-reported questionnaire to assess the participants body mass index (BMI) and caries (dmft/DMFT). In this study, descriptive analysis, student t-test, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), and multiple linear regression analysis were used. The study comprised 380 respondents, consisting of females (60.8%) and males (39.2%), with a mean age of 9.1 years and mean BMI of 26.3. The prevalence of caries among the study respondents was 66.6% (Table 2), and this prevalence was higher among females (67.5%), those who consumed sugar more than six times (77.5%), those who brushed their teeth once per day (80.3%), those who used no dental floss (68.4%), those who did not use mouthwash or rinse (68.4%), and those in the east and center regions (100%). The obese possess a statistically significant (P 
ISSN:1472-6831
1472-6831
DOI:10.1186/s12903-024-05117-5