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Raghavendra Shanbhog
JSS Dental College and Hospital
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ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7115-8417
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Background:
A realistic and tailored dietary advice plays a vital role in Preventive Dentistry. An appropriate diet analysis forms the bases for a precise dietary advice. Analysis of diet for its cariogenicity is a complex process thus performing a meaningful diet analysis is a challenge in routine clinical practice. Currently, very few tools are available for researchers or clinicians to assess children’s diet relating to caries risk. To the best of our knowledge an index that helps clinician to reduce composite diet diary information to a simple quantifiable interpretation is lacking. The current scientific paper presents a novel index that assesses the cariogenicity and healthfulness of child’s diet objectively and guides the professional to achieve pragmatic diet modification in the prevention of dental caries.
Methods:
A team comprised of specialist from division of Pediatric dentistry, Community medicine and Diet and Nutrition along with a pilot parent-child population of number 50 were involved in initial structuring of Diet’s Cariogenicity and Healthfulness Index.To obtain cut off values for cariogenicity of diet score a study was carried out with sample of 774 children correlating diet diary with caries status. A Receiver Operating Characteristic curve closest to the ideal of 100% sensitivity and 100% specificity was applied for statistical analysis.
Results:
Receiver Operating Characteristic curves plotted was 22.5 for diet scores for its cariogenicity. The sensitivity, specificity, and area under the curve of these cut‐off values were 70 and 95.
Conclusions:
The current scientific paper presents a novel Diet’s Cariogenicity and Healthfulness Index that assesses the cariogenicity and healthfulness of child’s diet objectively so as to guide the professional to achieve a pragmatic diet modification.
Keywords
Diet's Cariogenicity and Healthfullness Index, Children, Cariogenicity, Diet counseling, Dental caries and health
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Raghavendra Shanbhog
JSS Dental College and Hospital
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Background:
A realistic and tailored dietary advice plays a vital role in Preventive Dentistry. An appropriate diet analysis forms the bases for a precise dietary advice. Analysis of diet for its cariogenicity is a complex process thus performing a meaningful diet analysis is a challenge in routine clinical practice. Currently, very few tools are available for researchers or clinicians to assess children’s diet relating to caries risk. To the best of our knowledge an index that helps clinician to reduce composite diet diary information to a simple quantifiable interpretation is lacking. The current scientific paper presents a novel index that assesses the cariogenicity and healthfulness of child’s diet objectively and guides the professional to achieve pragmatic diet modification in the prevention of dental caries.
Methods:
A team comprised of specialist from division of Pediatric dentistry, Community medicine and Diet and Nutrition along with a pilot parent-child population of number 50 were involved in initial structuring of Diet’s Cariogenicity and Healthfulness Index.To obtain cut off values for cariogenicity of diet score a study was carried out with sample of 774 children correlating diet diary with caries status. A Receiver Operating Characteristic curve closest to the ideal of 100% sensitivity and 100% specificity was applied for statistical analysis.
Results:
Receiver Operating Characteristic curves plotted was 22.5 for diet scores for its cariogenicity. The sensitivity, specificity, and area under the curve of these cut‐off values were 70 and 95.
Conclusions:
The current scientific paper presents a novel Diet’s Cariogenicity and Healthfulness Index that assesses the cariogenicity and healthfulness of child’s diet objectively so as to guide the professional to achieve a pragmatic diet modification.
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