TY  - JOUR
TI  - ORAL HEALTH STATUS AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS IN A SUBPOPULATION OF TURKISH PATIENTS
AB  - Objectives: Understanding the oral health behavior and knowing oral health status of acommunity in order to facilitate the development of satisfactory dental public healthpreventive program. In this context, the purpose of this study is to investigate oral healthbehaviour of Turkish community who live in Usak province besides and to evaluateCPITN and DMFT index scores according to age, gender and education level.Materials and Methods: A face to face questionnaire was conducted for 2412subjects who were divided into six age groups to understand their oral healthbehavior. Periodontal measurements, and dental caries were applied by threecalibrated expert researchers for all teeth except the third molar.Results: Healthy periodontal tissue only existed in 153 (10.05%) individuals of 1521dentate participants. The mean DMFT value observed was 16.98±6.62. By aging,being male and having low education level, mean DMFT and CPITN scores showedan upward trend. 10.26% of the participants informed that they did not brush theirteeth and 92.55% of them stated that they did not floss their teeth. Most of theparticipants (83.25%) informed that they visited a dental clinic only in emergency andpain.Conclusions: The mean DMFT and CPITN scores increase in accordance with aging,low education and being male. Low flossing frequency, low prevalence of toothbrushing and low frequency of going to the dentist regularly were observed at the endof the study.
AU  - karaaslan, fatih
AU  - dikilitaş, ahu
AU  - yiğit, umut
DO  - 10.7126/cumudj.514426
PY  - 2019
JO  - Cumhuriyet Dental Journal 
VL  - 22
IS  - 2
SN  - 1302-5805
SP  - 167
EP  - 175
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/385778
ER  -