School-age dental screening: oral health and eating habits
Aim
the study has the purpose to evaluate the association between clinical data collected from dental screening carried out on children and their eating habits.
Materials and methods: The dental screening was carried out on a sample of eight-year-old children attending the third grade of the elementary schools of Gaeta (Latina). Clinical data and periodontal status indexes were recorded. The descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation, frequency) of all data were calculated and anova analysis and chi square test have been performed.