PARENTAL MOTIVATION IN THE MAINTENANCE OF DENTAL AND ORAL HEALTH WITH THE INCIDENCE OF CARIES IN CHILDREN AGED 6-12 YEARS

Abstract

Background: Children are the most vulnerable group to dental and oral health problems. The cause is that children's dietary habits towards high cariogenic foods and awareness about maintaining good and correct oral health are still lacking. Meanwhile, parents, especially mothers, are less concerned about the habit of taking care of children's teeth. The habit of children not taking care of teeth is due to the lack of motivation of mothers in children to do dental prevention, this habit can cause children to experience dental caries and the impact will be very large if dental prevention is not carried out early on in children.Purpose: to find out "the relationship between parental motivation in dental and oral prevention with the incidence of caries in children aged 6-12 years at SDN Sukawening 1 Sukawening District, Garut Regency". Method: Correlative descriptive research method with the research design used is cross sectional, the number of samples is 117 people, using the slovin formula. The measuring instruments used are questionnaires and DMF-T and def-t indices.Results: The results of the statistical test obtained a significance of 0.000 while the conditions for the hypothesis were accepted, namely < 0.05, so it can be concluded that there is a relationship between parental motivation in preventing children's dental and oral health with the incidence of caries in children aged 6-12 years at SDN Sukawening 1 Sukawening Garut Distric. Conclusion: There is a relationship between parental motivation and teeth in students in grades 1-6 of SDN 1 Sukawening, Garut district. This is shown as a result of P value=0.000.