On a Survey on Nutrition of Infants in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area

-Part I: On Carious Dentitions, Anomalies of Occlusion and Ways of Eating-

Abstract

In September,1987, a survey on the nutrition of infants was conducted with 1,235 children from 3 to 6 years of age selected from six nurseries and six kindergartens in the metropolis of Tokyo. We compared the survey results with other similar survey reports with respect to three areas; 1, caries attack on primary teeth,2, anomalies of dentition and occlusion and 3, how foods are eaten, to observe the difference by age and also between children in nurseries and in kindergartens.