Background and aim: Parent's knowledge and attitude towards oral hygiene practices plays an important role in maintenance of young children's oral health. It is evident that more a positive is the ...parent's attitude towards oral health; the more well will be the oral health of the children. Thus the main aim of the study was to assess knowledge, attitude practice of parents regarding oral health of their children. Material and methodology: 1000 randomized subjects visiting the department of pediatrics with either of their parents aged 3-5 years were selected. Data collection was done using a self-administered questionnaire about socio-economic status and knowledge attitude and practice of parents toward oral health. Results: the answers of the questions asked were aggregated and analyzed statistically using frequencies and percentages while the correlation was evaluated using pearson correlation test. The results evaluated that the awareness among parents regarding oral health was low in economically weaker sections and their attitude towards any sort of dental treatment differed significantly from socio-economically higher section who knew the importance of regular dental visits. Conclusion: The results of the study evaluated that majority of the parents had relatively low awareness of oral hygiene and in-turn its implementation towards the change in attitude of parents is the need of the hour.
The episode of coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) in the region of Wuhan, China, has advanced quickly into a general wellbeing and has spread exponentially to different parts of the world. These ribonucleic ...acid infection's creature supplies, zoonotic transmission, high change rates, and illustrated human-to-human spread has made them of specific open wellbeing concern. Given in all cases transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and reports of its spread, dental procedures like orthodontic procedure are at halt which thus are influencing the periodontal wellbeing of the patient. Objective: The reason of the study is to provide details regarding information and awareness among orthodontic patients about their periodontal wellbeing because of no/delay in treatment during lockdown. Material and methodology: A well-organized online multiple choice based survey was defined. The example size was picked by straightforward randomized testing as 300 from orthodontic patients of North India. The outcomes were classified, and elucidating insights were introduced for the scores of poll and furthermore dissected mean and standard deviations with a critical estimation of P<0.05. Pearson correlations test was used to find the correlation between ortho-perio and effects of lockdown on orthodontic treatments. Conclusion: During the COVID-19 pandemic, it is basic those dentists think universally and act locally to limit the dangers of transmitting SARS-CoV-2 in the orthodontic setting. The study mainly focused on the orthoperio relationship and the effects of covid lockdown on the orthodontic treatments and problems faced by the patients.
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