HUBUNGAN ANTARA CARA MENGGOSOK GIGI TERHADAP KEJADIAN KARIES GIGI PADA ANAK USIA SEKOLAH

Abstract

Dental health problems are a health problem that requires comprehensive treatment, because dental problems have a
broad impact covering physical, mental and social factors for individuals suffering from dental disease. This study aims
to determine the relationship between how to brush teeth on dental caries events in school-aged children with research
design of observational analysis and cross sectional approach. The sample of this research is 51 respondents taken
based on sampling total sampling technique. Data analysis used chi-square test. The data were collected using
observation sheet and caries examination on Molar I teeth. The result showed that way of brushing respondents teeth
was not good as much 35 students (68,6%) and good category as much as 16 students (31,4%), students with dental
caries as many as 37 students (72.5%) did not dental caries 14 students (27.5%). The result of statistical test obtained p
value = 0,005 <α (0,05), so it can be concluded that there is a significant relationship between the way of brushing
teeth to the incidence of dental caries in school age children

Keywords : Dental caries, how to brush teeth,school-age children