An epidemiological study to know the prevalence of deleterious oral habits among 6 to 12 year old children

An epidemiological study to know the prevalence of deleterious oral habits among 6 to 12 year old children

This study was taken to assess the prevalence of deleterious oral habits among 6-12 year old school going children. A sample size of 832 children was finalized with simple random sampling technique including 444 males and 388 females. To get the demographic information and presence of harmful oral h...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of international oral health 2014-02, Vol.6 (1), p.39-43
Hauptverfasser: Garde, J B, Suryavanshi, Rajendra K, Jawale, Bhushan Arun, Deshmukh, Vikramsingh, Dadhe, Dattaprasad P, Suryavanshi, Maneesha Kshirsagar
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Sprache:eng
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Age
Behavior
Children & youth
Females
Gender
Public Health Dentistry
Quality of life
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Zusammenfassung:This study was taken to assess the prevalence of deleterious oral habits among 6-12 year old school going children. A sample size of 832 children was finalized with simple random sampling technique including 444 males and 388 females. To get the demographic information and presence of harmful oral habits a closed-ended questionnaire was developed. Clinical evaluation was also done using mirror and water tests. Chi-square test was done to compare the prevalence of oral habits among different age groups and gender at p
ISSN:0976-7428
0976-1799