Hubungan Tingkat Pengetahuan terhadap Perilaku Pemeliharaan Kesehatan Gigi dan Mulut pada Pengguna Peranti Ortodonti Lepasan di RSGM USU

Abstract

Maintaining oral health specifically on individuals undergoing orthodontics treatment with removable appliances, is one of the determining factors resulting in successful treatment. Patient knowledge regarding oral health also one of direct cause of compliance with oral hygiene instructions and appliance maintenance. The aim of this study is assessing and finding the relations between oral health knowledge and behavior amongst patients undergoing orthodontics treatment with removable orthodontics appliances (ROA). Assisted by parents or guardian, questionnaires were distributed to be filled by consented respondents. 85 respondents aged 7-11 years old undergoing orthodontic treatment with ROA in RSGM USU at May 2024 were filling the questionnaires. Observational analytics method with the approach of cross sectional and carried out with Chi Square test was used to determine the relationship between knowledge and behaviour of maintaining oral hygiene. The result of the experiment shows there is significant relation between knowledge and behaviour with the level of knowledge being on the poor side (35.5%) to enough (34.1%) and lowest at good (30,6%). Whilst the behaviour and practice level resulted in being poor (4,7%), enough (52.9%) and good (42.4%). One of importance keeping oral hygiene during orthodontics treatment using ROA which generally opted for younger children, may become insight to the adults and practitioners which would be one of biggest determining factor for the success in treatment.