Thực trạng bệnh răng miệng và một số yếu tố liên quan của học sinh hai trường tiểu học thành phố Điện Biên Phủ, tỉnh Điện Biên năm 2018

A cross-sectional study was conducted on 381 students f-rom 2 primary schools in Dien Bien Phu city, Dien Bien province f-rom July 2018 to February 2019. The objective of the study was to determine the percentage of pupils with dental diseases. The study results showed that: 56.4% of the study subjects were boy, the Kinh ethnic group accounted for 82.9% of the total number of subjects. 63.5% of pupils have tooth decay, 23.4% of pupils have poor OHI-S oral hygiene index, 38.8% have tartar, 35.7% have bleeding gums, the rate of gingivitis is 16.0%. There is a relationship between bleeding gums and tartar with dental caries with OR of 3.84 and 3.08, respectively. Children with good GI have a lower rate of dental caries than children with poor GI (p<0.05). There is a relationship between the status of dental caries and the status of dental deposits of pupils (p<0.05). Children with dental examination within 1 year had a lower rate of tooth decay than children without dental examination (p<0.05). Children who eat sweets regularly are 1.67 times more likely to have tooth decay than children who rarely eat sweets.