Abstract: It is believed that good oral hygiene is a requisite for good health. Like the belief oral hygiene helps in maintenance of good health. However it is more important to know that Oral hygiene is practice of maintaining a clean and disease free oral cavity. It involves proper brushing and regular visit to a dentist. Maintaining a good oral hygiene is important to maintain a disease free and a good aesthetic life too. As a conclusion we can say that good oral hygiene is of socio medical importance. The statistical values of oral hygiene conducted in rural areas revealed the need full state of India to implement new oral hygiene reforms to tide over this situation of country’s helplessness in regard to oral health. This study strongly believes that with the latest advancement of dental practices and awareness, and improvement of the financial status of the citizens of the country the oral hygienic practices of the country have improved.
AIM: The aim of the research is
1. To identify and enumerate the improvement in dental awareness
2. To enumerated and provide evidential data to justify the improvement in oral hygienic practices
METHODOLOGY: The evidential data for the study was collected from survey, interview and secondary source of data from different journals and books in regard to Indian oral hygiene. The data collected from the above mentioned sources were consolidated and the statistical charts and graphs are made from the consolidated data to provide a new improvemental result and inference on the dental awareness of Indian public.
RESULT: The results of the survey were
1. How Many times do you brush your teeth? [right answer : twice a day(49%) SSD:28.005 ]
2. Have you visited a dentist[right answer: yes(86%) SSD:50]
3. Do you use a tooth brush to clean your teeth? [right answer: yes96(%) SSD:21.4 ]
4. What would you do if you have a tooth ache? [right answer: visit a dentist(69%) SSD:26.6 ]
5. Do you think brushing is enough to maintain good oral hygiene? [right answer: no(29%) SSD:22 ]
6. how often do you visit a dentist[right answer: regularly once in every 3 or 6 months (38%) SSD:21.4 ]
7. how often do you change your tooth brush [right answer: 3-4 months (79%) SSD:36.03 ]
8. Do known the present number of teeth you have in oral cavity (without counting)? [right answer: yes(59%) SSD: 12.7]
9. On what basis do you select your tooth paste? [right answer: yes(after consulting dentist(52%) SSD: 22]
10. Do you know the number of tooth you have got restored or treated? [right answer: yes(77%) SSD:38.32 ]
11. If visiting a dentist will you be able to tell the exact treatment name you went through. [right answer: yes(69.7%) SSD:27.8 ]
CONCLUSION: When the results of the survey conducted in this study were compared with the results of other studies conducted before on the same it was evident that status of Indian dental awareness of India improved dramatically. Further adds on to this results was the interviews conducted all the dentists and oral hygienist says confidently that number of patients visiting dental clinics has increased to this they supplement that overall dental knowledge and awareness of the patients has also increased. With all these evidences we were able to match our objective of this research that the overall Indian public has improved.
Keywords: Oral hygiene, Dental Awareness.
Title: A Study on the Dental Awareness and Oral Hygienic Practices of Indian Public
Author: B. Lokesh Sundaram
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1218 (print), ISSN 2348-1226 (online)
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