Inclusion criteria: enrolled in the Consultorio Externo Valdivia, healthy child control and presence of full deciduous dentition. Exclusion criteria: systemic illness and mental retardation.
The data were obtained from the parents history, dental examination and medical record.
The variables studied were: weight, size, nutritional diagnosis, baby bottle feeding at night, dmft. The nutritional information was stratified according to the instructions for Anthropometric Assessment of children under 6 years of MINSAL. The tabulation and analysis was performed in the program PASW STATISTIC 18.
Results: 55.7% were classified nutritionally normal and 32.8% as overweight. The dmft average was 2.4. 37.7% baby bottle feeding at night and 42.6% had ECC.
The chi-square to the variables of nutritional diagnosis and diagnosis of ECC a value of 1.57. and P value 0,815.
Conclusion: A high percentage was nutritionally classified as normal or overweight, which is correlated with the nutritional situation in Chile. Almost half had been ECC diagnosed and baby bottle feeding at night was common, being a major risk factor in the development of this disease.
The dmft average is within national values that the MINSAL delivered.
An association between ECC and nutritional diagnosis could not be demonstrated.