Relationship of Dental Health to Nutritional Status in Children in Grades I and II SDN 03 Curup Kota

Heriyanto, Hendri and Almaini, Almaini and Buana, Chandra (2019) Relationship of Dental Health to Nutritional Status in Children in Grades I and II SDN 03 Curup Kota. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Inter-professional Health Collaboration (ICIHC 2018), 14 (1). Atlantis Press, Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Inter-professional Health Collaboration (ICIHC 2018). ISBN 978-9462-52-707-2

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Abstract

Oral health is critical because the teeth and gums are damaged and not treated will cause pain in the teeth, chewing disorders and can disrupt the body's health. Dental caries or cavities in Indonesia for tooth pains that interfere with 13% of the population per month or as much as 2.62 million per month. Riskesdas (2016) showed that 72.1% of the Indonesian population has experience cavities. This research aimed to determine the relationship of oral health on nutritional status in children of class I and II SDN 03 Curup Kota in 2017. This research used a cross�sectional design; in this study, researchers took a total data sampling, where respondents were 78 students at SDN 03 Curup Kota in 2017. Univariate analysis of most of 53 people who experienced dental caries were 32 respondents (60.4%) who had abnormal nutritional status, and a small portion of 25 respondents who were not dental caries were 20 respondents (80.0 %) who have normal nutritional status. Based on the results of statistical tests Chi-Square, the test results were obtained ρ (0.002) <0.05, so there was a relationship between dental caries and nutritional status in children of SD 03 Curup Kota in 2017. It is expected that the respondents, especially in the children of SDN 03 Curup Kota always to maintain dental and oral hygiene.

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