Discussion
Dental caries preventive behavior
The results of this study show that there was
a higher percentage of mothers with poor levels of
preventive behavior, than with good behavior. More
than one-third of the mothers (43.7%) had good
levels of overall preventive behavior. Two studies
in Thailand gave contradictory results. A study by
Sithan (2003) reported lower percentages (24.2%)
and one by Khue (2000) showed higher percentages
(62.3%) of mothers with good preventive behavior