THE ASSOCIATION MOTHER’S EDUCATION AND THE AMOUNT OF FIRST MOLAR CARIES TEETH IN 6-7 YEARS OLD OF SD BAPTIS MEDAN DENAI 2014

Abstract

Education is one of the factor that infuences of healthy status for someone. The participation of
parents mostly a mother is very important in guidence, give understanding, improving and to
preparing facility for their children that can to keep their oral hygiene. The first molar replace the first
position that easy affected by caries because there is niches and fissure with the of teeth eruption at
the child in 6-7 years old, so that the prevention to caries expecially the teeth are many niches and
fissure on the surface is very important. The kind of research is using analitic survey with cross
sectional desain. The population of this research are the all of children in 6-7 years old SD
(elementary school) Baptis with numerals 40 children where as the sample is the total of population
are 40 children. This research aims to knows that the relation of mother’s education with the total of
the first caries molar of children in 6-7 years old. the result of this research it shows for 40
respondences, 32 children have caries (80%) on the first molar, while are not caries only 8 children (
20%). The level of mother’s education is elementary school, all of the children have caries on the
first molar. Based on chi square experimen have done, got the result there was any relation between
mother’s education and amount of the total of first molar caries (p<0,05), the children in 6-7 years old
SD Baptis have to keep their oral hygiene. Be excepted of the participation of parents in how to guide
their children to maintain oral hygiene and defend growth and development of the children’s first
molar so that it can oppose earlier caries.