1 Department of Dental Public Health, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia.
2 Department of Oral Biology, Faculty of Dentistry, Bhakti Wiyata Institute of health sciences, Kediri, East Java, Indonesia.
World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2025, 25(02), 094-099
Article DOI: 10.30574/wjarr.2025.25.2.0341
Received on 23 December 2024; revised on 31 January 2025; accepted on 02 February 2025
Background: Dental caries in early childhood (ECC) is the presence of one or more damaged, missing or filled teeth. In Indonesia, the reported prevalence of ECC in children aged 5 years in Indonesia is 90.2%. The cause of high ECC is inappropriate milk giving to children, either bottled milk or breast milk, due to lack of knowledge of parents, especially mothers and involvement of socio-economic status.
Objective: This study aims to examine the relationship between breastfeeding habits based on the socio-economic status of parents with the incidence of Early Childhood Dental Caries.
Method: The method used is a literature review with a narrative review procedure.
Result: There are still many parents who do not understand about proper breastfeeding, this is influenced by socio-economic factors so that the prevalence of early childhood caries is still high.
Conclusion: Early Childhood Caries is caused by the habit of breastfeeding or formula milk, the level of knowledge of the parents, as well as the socioeconomic status of the family.
Early childhood caries; Bottle feeding; Breastfeeding; Socioeconomic status
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TALSHA IRZAPUTRI ARMADANTY and DEVY RATRIANA AMIATI. The behavior of milk consumption based on the socioeconomic status of parents in the incidence of early childhood caries. World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2025, 25(02), 094-099. Article DOI: https://doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2025.25.2.0341.
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