The effect of educational level of females on their dental caries expedence
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https://doi.org/10.32828/mdj.v2i2.1069Keywords:
Dental caries, decay surfaces, filling surfaces, missing surfaces, education level, femaleAbstract
This study was designed to evaluate the influence of education levels of females
on their dental caries experience.
Two hundred sixty seven (267) single females were selected randomly in this
study, with an age of 18-39 years old. The educational level were classified to live code
(illiterate, primary, intermediate, secondary, college and postgraduate). Caries experience
were diagnosed and recorded according to the criteria suggested by WHO (1997). The
decayed, missing and filled surface (DMP S) index was used to assess the caries
experience.
The result show that the females in the high level of education have slightly lower
DMP S seen than other levels of education with no significant differences between them.
The study indicated that the mean decay surface in low education level have higher mean
significantly than the high education level. For the missing surface, the result show that
the high education level (college degree) has lower mean tha.n the other levels with no
significant differences between them while for the filled surface, the study demonstrated
very high significant difference between low and high education levels
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