Methods: Cross sectional survey. Compare study population : mothers of kindergarten pupils at BPK Penabur. 160 mothers participated in filling the questionnaires.
Results: It was found out that 35% of children were supervised by nannies. 28.6% of nannies did not monitor the children while brushing their teeth, while 100% of mothers monitored their children brushing their teeth (p=0.047). 32.8% of nannies asked the children to brush their teeth after snacking, while 25% of mothers did. 28.6% and 25.6% of children supervised by nannies and mother drank milk in bottles, respectively. The high frequency of snacking found in 14.3% of children supervised by nannies, while 46.2% of children supervised by mothers. 14.3% of children supervised by nannies refused to brush their teeth, while 58.3% of children supervised by mothers. In addition, when the children refused to brush their teeth, 100% of nannies tend to persuade the children, while 91.7% of mother did. Conclusions: From the data, mothers tended to give more snack to their children than nannies did. Mother did not really know that snacking could give bad impact to teeth. In addition, mothers did not really persuade their children when they refused to brush their teeth. In contrast, nannies were strict in supervising the children to brush their teeth. Therefore, children supervised by mothers had more teeth problems.