Parent’s Knowledge of Oral Health Care
Table 3 shows parent’s knowledge of oral health care. It was discovered that 70.5% of the parents said children’s toothpaste is less harmful to a child; 66.8% of the parents responded that brushing should commence at 1 year of age; and 40.3% of the parents said a child should first see a dentist at the age of 2. Many of the parents (76.0%) chose the smallest circle on the survey to be the size of a pea, while 50.7% of the parents chose the toothbrush with the smallest amount of the bristles covered to be the amount that
should be placed on a toothbrush (Appendix 1).