Four trained pediatricians assessed height, weight and cephalic perimeter to calculate children’s nutritional weight-age and height-age relations (WHO standards). The mean dmf-t was classified according to national age figures in worse than normal, normal, and better than normal, and correlated with individual caries risk and with height and weight age relation (χ 2 test). Results: Children (n = 265) were distributed by age and gender as follows: <1 year: n = 26; <2 years: n = 39; <3 years: n = 55; <4 years: n = 74; <5 years: n = 71; female: n = 145; male: n = 120. Prevalence and mean caries experience were: d 4–6 mf-t: 30.6%, mean d 4–6 mf-t: 1.11 ± 2.26; d 4–6 mf-s: 31%, mean d 4–6 mf-s: 1.92 ± 4.69; d 1–6 mf-s: 51.7%, mean d 1–6 mf-s: 3.75 ± 6.40, respectively.
Percentage distributions for individual caries risk were: low: 12.8%; moderate: 7.2%; high: 12.4%; very high: 67.6%. The distribution for weight-age relation was: malnutrition: 1.9%; malnutrition risk: 15.1%; normal: 72.5%; obesity risk: 9.8%; obesity: 0.7%. Corresponding data for heightage relation were: normal: 68.3%; low height risk: 23.0%; low height: 8.3%; pathological low height: 0.4%. There was a high correlation between caries risk and caries experience (χ 2 ; p = 0.001), but no statistically significant association between nutritional status and caries experience (χ 2 ; p > 0.05). Conclusion: The population caries experience was commensurate with national figures, despite an apparent high caries risk. This study was partially funded by the Colombian Chapter of the Global Alliance for a Cavity-Free Future, Colgate Palmolive Colombia.