Knowledge and Hygiene Practice on Oral Health among Adolescent Student of Pokhara Lekhnath Metropolitan City

Abstract

This study was conducted to assess Knowledge and Hygiene Practice on Oral Health Among Adolescent Student of Pokhara- Lekhnath metropolitan. Oral disease qualifies as major public health problems owing to their higher prevalence and significant. Oral health knowledge is considered to be an essential prerequisite for health related behavior. It has been shown that Nepali children have low level of health awareness and practice as compared to their western countries. Prevalence of oral problems declining in developed countries but slowly increasing in developing country in recent years. According to WHO 85% of total population are affected by teeth and gingival diseases in Nepal and according to infectivity Nepal is in 7 v

th position. There is limited amount of literature in this area and study aims to assess the knowledge and hygiene practice on oral health among adolescent student of Pokhara. Descriptive study was conducted among 94 samples from 1 public and 1 private school. Samples were draw by cluster sampling. Pokhara-Lekhnath metropolitan was selected purposively, one public and one private school was choosen following simple random technique from each school student from grade 9 was selected randomly. It was observe from present study all participants brush their teeth and more than half of the respondents have knowledge about oral health. Among the participant most of the respondents use brush and paste for brushing their teeth. Majority of the respondents have oral health problem form 6 month. Most of the respondents have knowledge about oral health problems and risk of oral health problem. Only about half of the respondents had done their dental treatment. Majority of the respondents 92% were heard about health of mouth and teeth. Less than half of the respondent’s response that oral health program was conducted in their school among them more than half chetanamulak program was conducted. In response to frequency of brushing their teeth more than half of the respondents brush their teeth once a day. Most of the respondents change their brush within 2 month. About 50% of the respondents use sweet foods sometimes where as nearly about half use daily. Majority of the respondent clean their teeth after using foods or meal.