ORAL HEALTH BEHAVIOUR AND PREVALENCE OF DENTAL CARIES IN 12-15 YEARS OLD SCHOOL GOING CHILDREN IN DISTRICT KOHAT: A CROSS-SECTIONAL SURVEY
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.33279/jkcd.v9i01.334Keywords:
Dental Caries, Prevalence, Oral health Behavior.Abstract
Objective:
To estimate the prevalence of dental caries, and to assess the knowledge, attitude, practices about oral health behavior in 12-15 years old school children in district Kohat.
Materials and Methods:
This cross sectional survey was conducted for a period of six months and information was collected from 395 school children; aged 12-15 years from 8 different schools of district Kohat using simple random sampling technique . The handicapped children and those with congenital disorders were excluded. A written consent was taken with the help of district education officer Kohat and school principal from the parents of school children. A clinical examination was done to record Caries experience according to the WHO criteria as decayed, missing, filled teeth (DMFT). The collected data was analyzed using SPSS version16.
Results:
The mean DMFT for 395 children was 1.0. However, the mean DMFT score for urban school children was 1.0 and for children from rural schools of district Kohat was 0.99 respectively. A mean DMFT score of 1.0 though is considered low, but the D (decayed) component was higher as compared to M (missing) and F (filling), which shows unsatisfactory attitude towards the utilization of dental services.
Conclusion:
It was concluded that knowledge of school children towards dental health and oral hygiene is satisfactory. However, there is room for improvement in practices of school children towards dental health and dental service utilization.
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