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Volume 3
Dentistry and Craniofacial Research
ISSN: 2576-392X
Page 60
JOINT EVENT
August 16-17, 2018 Madrid, Spain
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24
th
International Conference on
Dental Public Health & Dental Hygiene
3
rd
International Conference on
General Practice & Primary Care
General Practice 2018
Dental Public Health 2018
August 16-17, 2018
The association between oral health behavior reports and clinical measurement among Iranian
adolescents
Imaneh Asgari
Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Iran
O
ne of the most common studies in oral health is evaluating the oral hygiene behaviors including daily self-care. Although
the best way for assessing oral hygiene is measuring plaque and calculus indices, many studies are based on individual
reports. In current study, the relation between the common self-care behaviors and plaque index plus diagnostic values of self-
reported tool are evaluated. For this cross-sectional study, we examined 260 students 13 to 15 year-old of Isfahan female's high
school, by two-stage randomized sampling. The common tool for oral health behavior was disseminated among both students
and their parents. Thereafter a calibrated-examiner assessed dental plaque by 'Sillness and Loe' index. After transformation the
responses to binary variables, sensitivity and specificity of self-reported tools was measured in according to the clinical plaque
index. The association between 'plaque index' and self-reported brushing frequency was significant (Pv=0.017). Mean 'plaque
index' has a significant difference in various groups of parents report on brushing and flossing (Pv respectively: 0.001, 0.005).
Sensitivity and specificity of students and parents reports about brushing were about 35% and 83%. Moderate PPV (71%) and
low NPV (52%) was achieved. Parents report on flossing was highly sensitive (85%) and low specific (26%). Findings of this
study showed unfavorable self and parent reports about brushing is highly presenting weak plaque index. Also whenever the
parents report good flossing habits, it is reliable as good plaque index.
asgari_i@yahoo.comJ Dent Craniofac Res 2018, Volume 3
DOI: 10.21767/2576-392X-C2-006