fa The Relationship of Severe Early Childhood Caries and Body Mass Index in a Group of 3- to 6-year-old Children in Shiraz کودکان Pediatric Dentistry پژوهشي Research <b> Statement of problem:</b> Early childhood caries can cause pain, discomfort and also inability to have a healthy nutrition .Malnutrition can be characterized when there is a weight, height, and body mass index (BMI) deficiency.<div><b> Purpose:</b> The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between the severe early childhood caries (based on the dmft index) and BMI in pre-school children in Shiraz. </div><div>  <b>Materials and Method:</b> A descriptive analytical cross-sectional study was enrolled on 202 healthy preschool children with the age range of 3-6 years recruited from the kindergartens of different socio- economical parts of Shiraz, Iran. The Anthropometric measurements, weight and height were evaluated. The Z-scores were calculated employing WHO Anthro software (www.who.int/childgrowth/software/en/ index.html) to elucidate the subject’s status on the age- and sex-specific growth chart. Every Child who has received two Z-scores under the normal value (< -2) was considered as abnormal. The relationship between dmft index and BMI was then investigated. </div><div>  <b>Results:</b> The mean of dmft was 4.13. From children with severe early childhood caries, 12.5%were under weight, 5% had height deficiency and 19.5% had BMI deficiency, however, there was no significant relationship between increasing dmft and the height, weight and BMI deficiency.</div><div><b> Conclusion: </b>There was not a linear correlation between severe early childhood caries and BMI, height, and weight deficiency. An incidence of 55% was yielded for severe early childhood caries which was an additional finding of this study.</div><hr><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left direction: ltr unicode-bidi: embed"><b>Source: </b>Journal of Dentistry Shiraz University of Medical Sciences </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left direction: ltr unicode-bidi: embed"><a href="http://dentjods.sums.ac.ir/index.php/JDSUMS/article/view/653" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">Full Text</font></a></p> Preschool children, Body mass index, Dental caries, Software 0 0 http://idai.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-32-3076&slc_lang=fa&sid=1 A Edalat 100319475328460014229 100319475328460014229 No Dept. of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz , Iran M Abbaszadeh maryam4232000@yahoo.com 100319475328460014230 100319475328460014230 Yes Dept. of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran M Eesvandi 100319475328460014231 100319475328460014231 No Dept. of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran A Heidari 100319475328460014232 100319475328460014232 No