Knowledge, attitude and Practice of oral health among School children aged 11 – 16 Years of an urban area

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Oral health has a great impact on health and wellbeing of each and every individual in the society. Healthy oral cavity plays a vital role for an individual to talk and smile comfortably, interact and eat appropriately, without getting from any sorts of disease, entity, uneasiness, discomfort or an embarrassment. Oral disease, out of total world’s population more than half of the (almost 3.58 billion people) are having dental caries as estimated by Global Burden of Disease Study done in 2019. Around the globe around 2 billion people suffer from dental caries of permanent teeth and 520 million children suffers from dental caries of primary teeth. More than 90% of school children world-wide have experienced dental caries, with the disease being most prevalent and common in Latin American and Asian countries. OBJECTIVE: 1. To assess the Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Oral Health among school children aged 11– 16 years. 2. To study the factors influencing Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Oral Health.