[Risk factors of dental caries among young children in Pudong New District, Shanghai].

Porpose: To establish a prospective cohort of kindergarten children and longitudinally study the causes of early childhood caries.

Methods: Cluster random sampling was used to select a kindergarten in the urban and suburban areas of Pudong New District of Shanghai, a total of 240 small-class children joined the study. Chi-square test, analysis of variance, binomial logistic regression model and general linear regression model was used to analyze caries of the cohort children at baseline and 1 year after follow-up with SPSS 21.