Assessing the knowledge and attitudes of group of mothers living in Saudi Arabia with regards to their children’s oral health

Background knowledge of mothers with respect to health can affect children’s health either directly by promoting health or indirectly by influencing the health-related and behaviours of children. aim of this study was to assess the knowledge and of a group of mothers living in Saudi Arabia with to their children’s oral health. cross-sectional study involved 614 mothers living across Arabia. An electronic web-based questionnaire was and distributed among the participants using social media outlets. 80 per cent of study participants were regarding their child’s primary and teeth’s eruption time and agreed that their ’s primary teeth were as important as the permanent . The results also indicated that 79 per cent of the were aware that bottle feeding during sleep tooth decay and 73.7 per cent knew that the of sugar consumption has a greater impact on health than the quantity of sugar consumed. Almost all (97 per cent) reported that they watch and help children to brush their teeth. More than half (55.8 per ) of them reported that they take their children for their dental check-up when the children are one-year old, almost three-quarters (73 per cent) reported they take children to regular dental check-ups. mothers had a positive attitude toward their ’s oral health and were reasonably knowledgeable it; however, further health education is required some groups and in some aspects particularly those oral and systemic health.