Evaluation Of Knowledge, Attitude And Practice In Parents Regarding Paediatric Oral Health Care
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Objective: To assess the knowledge, attitude, and practise in parents regarding paediatric oral health care.
Design: A cross sectional questionnaire survey of 500 parents visiting dental clinics for the first time at the Department of Paediatric and Preventive Dentistry for dental treatment of their child.
Outcome measures: Responses were obtained for dental knowledge, attitudes and practise. Relating to the eruption and shedding of deciduous and permanent teeth, preventive aids in pedodontics, diseased conditions such as dental decay, gums swelling and crowding, frequency of consumption of refined food by their children and oral health practise.
Results: Parents have approximately similar percentage of positive knowledge i.e.38.4% and 38.8% towards preventive oral health and oral disease respectively. In addition the positive attitude was also found to be 77.5% and 77.8% towards preventive oral health and oral disease respectively. Whereas only 11.41% showed a positive attitude towards practising the preventive oral health, in contrast with oral disease showing 35.6% parents positive practise.
Conclusions: Parents had positive attitude on the need to conserve natural teeth for their children, but they lacked adequate knowledge regarding preventive oral health and oral disease. And also very low utilization of dental services in spite of positive attitude towards dental treatments.
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