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May 01-02, 2017 Toronto, Canada
2nd International Conference on
Restorative Dentistry and Prosthodontics
Volume 5, Issue 1 (Suppl) J Oral Hyg Health
ISSN: 2332-0702 JOHH, an open access journal Restorative Dentistry & Prosthodontics 2017
May 01-02, 2017
Oral health behaviours of primary caregivers and early childhood caries in Ekurhuleni health district of
South Africa
Ajibola Adegboye1, Khomotjo Mpolobosho2 and Sharafadeen Olatunbosun 2
1Management College of Southern Africa, South Africa
2Fourways Medical Centre, South Africa
Early Childhood Caries (ECC) has been documented to be of highest prevalence in predominantly Coloured (Mixed-Race) rather
than in White- or Black-dominated communities of South Africa. As a result of a new realization that parents/primary caregivers
(PCGs) rather than the child are the key individuals who determine the social and behavioural environment that shape oral health
practices for children, this study set out to examine the relationship between health behaviours of primary caregivers (Biological
parents or not) of preschool children and caries experience in South Africa's Ekurhuleni Health District (using a predominantly
Coloured community of Arla Park). A total of 545 PCG-child pairs for children in the age group of 12-71 months were interviewed
(PCGs only) and examined, using DMFT/deft indices (PCGs and children). Results showed that overall, the mean deft ranged between
2.88 (aged <4 years) and 3.78 (aged 4-5.11 years); and high deft scores occurred to children with PCGs who are unemployed (78.1%),
consume alcohol frequently (59.87%), visited dentist only when in pain and for tooth extraction (68.11%) and admitted to putting
infants to sleep with bottle-with-sugary-drinks (65.72%). The strong negative relationship that was revealed in this study between
socio-economic profile, oral/dental care and health seeking/child grooming behaviour of PCGs on the one hand, and mean deft index
of their children on the other, can be a useful tool for screening and targeting child populations in need of treatment, and also assist
public policy planning towards developing health preventative and promotion programmes to aid early intervention and prevention.
Biography
Ajibola Adegboye completed his Dental and Postdoctoral degrees from Nigerian and South African Universities. He owns a solo dental practice in South Africa. He
attended the UW, Seattle School of Public Health as a Fogarty Fellow (1990), and he has contributed to scientifically reputed international meetings and journals on
infection control and HIV/AIDS, and dentistry. He is currently finalising his MBA dissertation with Management College of Southern Africa (Mancosa). His previous
peer-reviewed publications include the collaborations with Joan Kreiss, MD, Femi Soyinka, MD and Greg Moss, MD (1990) and PG Robinson, RW Rowland, Steven
Yeung and Newell Johnson (2002).
Ajibola Adegboye et al., J Oral Hyg Health 2017, 5:1 (Suppl)