Hubungan early childhood caries (ECC) dengan status gizi anak umur 3-5 tahun di wilayah kerja Puskesmas Mengwi III Badung

Introduction: Early childhool caries (ECC) is a disease that could impairs dental aestethic and social function of children. ECC also cause pain and discomfort in mastication process.The aim of this study was to find out about ECC incidence and nutritional status of those children and investigate the relationship between those two categories. Method: this study was conducted on 107 children aged 3 to 5 years old through multistage sampling and the data was analyzed with Fisher’s Exact test. Result: the result shows that the data from ECC category were distributed greatly at children with ECC group (71%) which divided into 25.2% from ECC type I group, 32.7% from ECC type II group, and 13.1% from ECC type III group. The data from nutritional status category were distributed greatly at children with normal weight group (77.6%). Conclusion: there is no relation between ECC incidence with nutritional status in children aged 3 to 5 years old at Puskesmas Mengwi III Badung’s Work Area (P-value> 0.05), but the data shows that ECC severity tends to increase when the children grows older.