Oral Health Status and Dental Care of Disable Children

Abstract

Now a days disability has becomes a great problem. But in dental care, facilities for them are very rare. For the purpose of doing something for disable children a study on oral health status and dental care of disable children was conducted in CRP, Mirpur, Bangladesh. To identify the oral health status of disable children in Dhaka city, Bangladesh. A cross sectional study to assess the oral health condition of disable children was conducted. Data were collected from 125 disable children attending in CRP, Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh through purposive sampling technique. Study shows that there was very poor knowledge on brushing technique. 55% brushed their teeth like brush upper teeth from above downward, lower from below upward and side to side movement.64.8% brushed their teeth before breakfast and 17.4% before breakfast and after dinner and others brushes their tooth in other times. 60% had halitosis, and caries rate was 49%. Most of them had abnormal oral habit.80% children had bruxism, 75% had multiple abnormal oral habit. 38.9% had mouth breathing. 63% never visit to a dentist and 20% had visit dentist when they suffered from dental pain.12% visit dentist once a year and only 4% visited dentist for regular check-up. 34% of respondents did not follow proper oral health hygiene. They took care of their teeth by their own method. 20% informed by dental health professional, 18.4% by dentist, 1.6% by radio, 24% by television and 0.8% from printed materials. Most of the participants did not have proper hygienic knowledge as a result they did not take proper dental care. Caries rate was increased with the increase of their age because they did not brush their teeth regularly. Dental health professionals and dentist should work to aware people about oral health status and proper dental care especial program should be arranged for disable children.