The Relationship of Mother's Parenting Patterns in Maintenance of Dental and Oral Health with Caries Numbers (Study on mentally retarded students at the Central Surabaya Special School in 2022)

Abstract

Background: Mothers have a significant influence on children's behavior in maintaining
dental and oral health, especially on dental caries status. Parenting is the best way for
parents to educate their children. Different children's habits result from different parenting
patterns, including in terms of tooth brushing behavior. Teaching how to brush teeth so that
it becomes a habit to prevent the accumulation of dental plaque needs to be done by
parents, especially mothers as the closest figures to children (Aulina, 2018).
Objective: To know the relationship between maternal parenting in maintaining oral and
dental health with the number of dental caries in mentally retarded students.
Method: The type of research used is cross sectional analytic research. Which was carried
out in July 2022 at the Central Surabaya Special School. The research subjects were 47
mothers of mentally retarded students and 47 mentally retarded students who met the
criteria taken by purposive sampling technique. The data collection instrument used a
questionnaire to measure maternal parenting in maintaining oral and dental health,
conducting dental caries examinations on mentally retarded students. Using the Chi-square
test to analyze the relationship between maternal parenting patterns in maintaining dental
health and caries rates in mentally retarded students in SLB Surabaya Central in 2022.
Result: The parenting pattern of the mother of mentally retarded students is in the
sufficient category and the dental caries rate of mentally retarded students in the Central
Surabaya Special School in 2022 is in the medium category. Based on the analysis test
results that there is no significant relationship between maternal parenting in the
maintenance of dental and oral health with the number of dental caries in mentally retarded
students at SLB Surabaya Center in 2022 (p 0.05).
Conclusion: there is no relationship between maternal parenting in maintaining dental
health with the dental caries rate of mentally retarded students at SLB Surabaya Central in
2022.