A Changing Trend In Eruption Age and Pattern of First Deciduous Tooth: Correlation to Feeding Pattern
Published: March 1, 2014 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2014/.4161
Monika V Kohli,Gururaj B. Patil, Narayan B. Kulkarni, Kishore Bagalkot, Zarana Purohit,
Nilixa Dave, Shitalkumar G Sagari, Manjunath Malaghan
1. Private Practitioner, The Cure Orthodontic Clinic, Sama, Vadodara, Gujarat, India.
2. Reader, Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Pariyaram Dental College, Pariyaram, Kannur, Kerala, India.
3. Reader, Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics. K.M.Shah Dental College And Hospital Sumandeep Vidyapeeth, Vadodara, Gujarat, India.
4. Reader, Department of Orthodontics, Al-Ameen Dental College, Athani Road, Bijapur, Karnataka, India.
5. IIIrd Year Post Graduate Student, Department of Orthodontics, K.M.Shah Dental College and Hospital, Sumandeep Vidhyapeeth, Piparia, Vadodara, Gujarat, India.
6. IInd Year Post Graduate Student, Department of Orthodontics, K.M.Shah Dental College and Hospital, Sumandeep Vidhyapeeth, Piparia, Vadodara, Gujarat, India.
7. Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Jodhpur Dental College General Hospital, Jodhpur National University, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
Correspondence
Dr Gururaj B. Patil,
Pariyaram Dental College, Pariyaram, Kannur, Kerala-670503, India.
Phone: +91-9844170766, E-mail: drgururajpatil@gmail.com
Background: Feeding mode during infancy and its effect on deciduous tooth appearance in oral cavity in two generations and among genders.
Aim and Objective: Study aimed to compare and correlate times and patterns of deciduous tooth eruption in breastfeeding (OBF), partial breastfeeding (PBF) and spoon feeding (SF) infants and initiation of semisolid food feeding (SSF) in infants. It also aimed to address the variations in the time of eruption of first deciduous tooth and its pattern in two generations who had more than a decade of difference in ages.
Materials and methods: An open-ended questionnaire study was conducted on mothers of 265 patients from two groups, generation 1 (G1)-adults who were aged 20-35 years and second group, generation 2 (G2)-children who were below 5 years of age.
Results: A statistical significance was observed with respect to age, gender, generations, and frequency of breastfeeding, partial breastfeeding and time of initiation of semisolid food.
Conclusion: There is a delayed eruption of teeth in present generation. For girls, it occurs at age of 7.88 months and for boys, it occurs at the age of 8.08 months.
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