Body mass index risk for the development of dental caries of 12 year-old pupils

Obesity and the oral health have common riskfactors with aspecialattention given to the unbalanced diet.The prevalence ofobesity in children was ourchallenge.We focused our objective ondetermining the relationship between high weight and thepresence of dentalcaries.Our research included a total of100 pupils from both genders(30-control group without DMF and70-an experimental one with DMF)at the age of12from the local elementary schools in Shtip.The determination ofBMIin%was conducted following the patterns of BMI and using the tables provided by theC.D.C and Prevention and the specialized software oftheWHO(AnthroPlusv1.0.4)which enables to estimate the data forthe body weight of children and adolescents by generating values given in%which determines thecategory ofBMIin charts.The examinees were divided in4categories:lowweightBMI<.5%normalweight=530%.The presence orabsence of caries process wasnoted using the Klei