Evaluation of Oral Health Status among 5-15-Year-old School Children in Shimoga City, Karnataka, India: A Cross-sectional Study
Introduction: Oral health is an integral part of general health. Dental problems can be avoided if identified at an early stage. There is no data on oral health status of school going children in Karnataka state’s Shimoga city. Aim: To evaluate oral health status of school going children among...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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JCDR Research and Publications Private Limited
2017-07-01
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| Series: | Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research |
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| Summary: | Introduction: Oral health is an integral part of general health.
Dental problems can be avoided if identified at an early stage.
There is no data on oral health status of school going children
in Karnataka state’s Shimoga city.
Aim: To evaluate oral health status of school going children
among 5-15-year-old in Shimoga city.
Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted
among 1458 government and private school children aged 5-6,
9-10 and 14-15 years. Dental caries (DMFT and deft Index),
oral hygiene status (OHI-S Index) and dental fluorosis (Dean’s
Fluorosis Index) according to WHO diagnostic criteria (1997)
were assessed. Data was evaluated using ANOVA and t-test by
SPSS (IBM statistical software version 21.0.) at a level of 5%
significance.
Results: The deft among 5-6-year-old children was 3.36±3.511,
deft and DMFT among 9-10-year-old was 2.55±2.497 and
0.45±0.996 respectively and DMFT among 14-15-year-old was
1.34±1.832. The caries prevalence among 5-6-year-old was
68.8%, 9-10-year-old was 77.2% and 14-15-year-old was 48.9%
and overall prevalence of dental caries was 65.3% which was
statistically significant. Among 9-10-year-old oral hygiene was
good in 85.4%, fair in 13.5% and poor in 1% of school children
and among 14-15-year-old oral hygiene was good in 77.4%, fair
in 22.2% and poor in 0.4%. Overall 81.7% of children had good
oral hygiene. The prevalence of dental fluorosis was 14.5%.
Conclusion: The children from government school were found
to be less caries free than the private school children, but the
difference was not significant. Oral hygiene status is found
to be good among both the private and government school
children. So the dental awareness is required among children
of government school. |
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| ISSN: | 2249-782X 0973-709X |