Journal of AdvancedMedical and Dental Sciences Research

Departments of 

1Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry,

2Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics,  Shree Bankey Bihari Dental College and Research Centre, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

Oral hygiene is essential to oral health, so it is wise to provide the population with adequate guidelines on children’s oral health behavior and its relationship with dental caries. Socioconomic status and attitude or demographic factors of parents have a strong influence child oral health. There is need of the time to address the factors that influence children’s oral health in order to develop and implement complementary public health actions focused on children and parental behaviors, in an endeavor to provide them with good oral health and better quality of life. So, present article was aimed to review the influence of parents’ oral health behaviors and socioeconomic status on their children’s dental caries to elucidate what are the barriers to achieve the goal of complete oral health care.
Key words: Oral Health, Parents’ dental health, Dental Caries, Parental attitudes, Parental knowledge

Corresponding Author: Dr. Muhammad Nishad Thyath, Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Shree Bankey Bihari Dental College and Research Centre, Ghaziabad, India.  E mail: multispecialitydental @gmail.com

This article may be cited as:   Thyath MN, Nishad SG, Sharma M, Zaidi I. Impact Of Socioeconomic Status And Parental Factors On Child Oral Health- A Review Of Literature. J Adv Med Dent Scie Res 2015;3(2):153-157.