Status Kebersihan Gigi dan Mulut dengan Status Karies Gigi (Kajian pada Murid Kelompok Umur 12 Tahun di Sekolah Dasar Negeri Kota Bukittinggi)
Abstrak: Teeth and mouth
disease has the first ranked at 77% of the population disease prevalence of 10
complained of by the community. Dental caries in 12th aged group ends to
increase from year to year. In general teeth and mouth disease that affect many
people of Indonesia relating to oral hygiene. According to expert opinion one
of the factors that are directly related to the occurrence of caries is oral
hygiene. The purpose of this study was to correlate the status of oral hygiene
with dental caries status.
Method: This study used Cross-sectional design and conducted in elementary
school city of Bukittinggi. The subjects were all students in 12th aged group
which are permanent teeths all. Measuring tools used is the OHI-S (Oral Hygiene
Index-Simplified) for dental and oral hygiene status, and Decay Missing Filling
(DMF)- index for dental caries status with the analysis Pearson’s correlation
test and simple linear regression based on significance level at 0.05.
Result: Oral and hygiene status of the students in 12th aged
group elementary school city of Bukittinggi is in good category, with the high
caries prevalence 55,68% and the average of DMF-T 1.35. Statical analysis
showed a significant and positive relationship between status of oral hygiene
with dental caries status as the indicated by the value of ß = 0.685 and p = 0.01.
The result also showed that the mean DMF-T of female students is higher than
male students indicated by the value of p = 0.00 < 0.05.
Conclusions: The better oral hygiene status of the students the better
also the status of dental caries.
Keywords: oral hygiene and
dental caries, DMFT (Dental, Missing, Filling-Teeth), dental caries, Oral
Hygiene Index Simplified (OHI-S)
Penulis: Syukra Alhamda
Kode Jurnal: jpkedokterandd110170
