TY - JOUR ID - TI - Caries severity in relation to oral health knowledge and behavior of third and fifth year dental students / University of Baghdad (A comparative study) AU - Nibal M. Hoobi PY - 2014 VL - 26 IS - 3 SP - 164 EP - 168 JO - Journal of baghdad college of dentistry مجلة كلية طب الاسنان بغداد SN - 18171869 23115270 AB - Background: The knowledge of dental students is important because these individuals are the future dental healthproviders. The purpose of the present study was to explore the severity of dental caries in relation to oral healthknowledge and behavior between two different grades of undergraduate dental students in the College of Dentistry/ University of Baghdad.Materials and methods: One hundred dental students were included in this study (50 third years and 50 fifth yearstudents). A questionnaire was distributed among them to evaluate their oral health knowledge and behavior.Dental students were examined for recording of dental caries severity.Results: Data analysis revealed that third year dental students had higher mean of decayed surfaces (DS) andmissing surfaces (MS), compared to the other group, the difference was statistically highly significant (P<0.01) for DSand significant for MS (P<0.05), while fifth year dental students were found to have higher mean value of filledsurfaces (FS) and the difference was highly Significant (P<0.01). However, higher DMFS value was recorded for finalyear students without any significant difference. Oral health knowledge was better for fifth grade and the differencewas highly significant (p<0.01) except for the question about complete removal of dental plaque by brushing only,the difference was significant (p<0.05) .Oral health behavior of third grade students was at lower level, the differencewas highly significant (P<0.01) except for the questions about frequency of brushing and sweet eating, it wassignificant (p<0.05) and it was not significant difference regarding use of siwak.Conclusion: The findings of this study highlights that increase the theoretical education of dental students in additionto clinical experience will improve their oral health knowledge and behavior, which in turn affect positively the oralhygiene towards health promotion and prevention of oral diseases

كا ن الغرض من ھذه الدراسھ ھو معرفة مدى شدة تسوس الاسنان وعلاقتھا بمعرفة صحة الفم و السلوك بین مرحلتین مختلفتین من طلاب كلیة طب الاسنان /جامعة بغداد شملت ھذهالدراسھ مائة طالب (خمسون طالب من المرحلھ الثالثھ وخمسون طالب من المرحلھ الخامسھ).وقد تم توزیع استبیان مكون من مجموعة اسئلھ فیما بینھم لتقییم معرفتھم بصحة الفموالسلوك بالاضافھ الى فحص شدة التسوس لھؤلاء الطلاب.وكشف تحلیل البیانات ان طلاب المرحلھ الثالثھ لدیھم متوسط اعلى من الاسطح المتسوسھ والاسطح المفقوده وكان الفرقاحصائیا معنویھ عالیھ للاسطح المتسوسھ في حین كان طلاب السنھ الخامسھ لدیھم قیمھ اعلى لسطوح الاسنان التي تم علاجھا وكان الفرق احصائیا معنویھ عالیھ وسجلت قیمھ اعلىلمجموع الاسطح المتسوسھ والمفقوده والمعالجھ لطلاب المرحلھ الخامسھ وكان الفرق احصائیا غیرمعنوي.كانت معرفة صحة الفم والسلوك الصحي افضل للمرحلھ الخامسھ.اوضحتھذه الدراسھ ان التعلیم النظري لطلاب المرحلھ الخامسھ بالاضافھ الى الخبره السریریھ ادت الى تحسین معرفتھم بصحة الفم والسلوك وھذا بدوره اثر ایجابیا على العنایھ بالفم نحوتعزیز الصحھ والوقایھ من الامراض. ER -