Oral hygiene and gingival health among overweight Iraqi school – age children (clinical comparative study)

Majeed, ReemH.; R. Naaom, Enas; Hanau, KadhimJ.

	Oral hygiene and gingival health among overweight Iraqi school – age children (clinical comparative study)
Journal of baghdad college of dentistry
Article 1, Volume 23, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 97-101
Authors
ReemH. Majeed; Enas R. Naaom; KadhimJ. Hanau
Abstract
ABSTRACTBackground: The impact of obesity on general human health status has been studied extensively in modern literatureas it found to be related to most systemic disease including cardiovascular, respiratory, metabolic and otherdiseases. On the other hand, studies have found a strong association between obesity and various clinical andpathological aspects of periodontal disease, but most of these studies were directed toward adult age group onlywithout inclusion of younger age groups. This matter calls for more researches to be directed toward these agegroups. This research was conducted to provide a baseline data that hopefully fill the gap of shortage of knowledgein this vital subject.Material and method: The sample of this research was consists of 180 children (90 girls & 90 boys) with age range (6 –12). For each gender and according to their percentile ranking, the children were allocated into three subgroups(healthy weight, at risk of overweight and overweight). Each group was consists of (30) children. All of children wereexamined for Plaque Index (PLI), and bleeding on probing index (BOP).Results: Greater values for PLI were recorded for children in overweight groups (1.36 for girls & 1.51 for boys) incomparison to those in healthy (0.85 for girls & 0.98 for boys) and at risk (1.07 for girls & 1.91 for boys) groups. Greatervalues for BOP were also recorded for children in overweight groups (0.43 for girls & 0.67 for boys) in comparison tothose in healthy (0.11 for girls & 0.13 for boys) and at risk (0.42 for girls & 0.35 for boys) groups. According to pairedsample t-test, most of these differences were found to be statistically highly significant. Non significant differenceswere recorded between different study groups on gender basis.Conclusion: This research has documents the relation of obesity to periodontal health in children regardless of theirgenders, but more studies to explore different aspects of this relation still required.Key words: Obesity. Periodontal disease. BMI. BOP. PLI. (J Bagh Coll Dentistry 2011;23(3): 97-101).

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