The Correlation between dental crowding and oral hygiene status among urban adults at Dijlah University College
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32828/r8n24w52Keywords:
crowding, malocclusion, oral hygiene, periodontal diseases, plaqueAbstract
Introduction: If teeth are crowded, food particles may become stuck in the inter-dental areas making brushing more difficult resulting in plaque accumulation, periodontal and dental problems.
Aims of study: Investigation any potential relationship between dental hygiene and crowded teeth.
Methodology: This study uses a cross-sectional design and is analytical in nature.The investigation was conducted in the dentistry department at Dijlah University College with total number of samples 200 subjects: 50 male and 50 female participants with normal aligned teeth, in addition to 50 male and 50 female participants with crowded teeth who are between 18-25 years of age. The crowding status (moderate and severe) was assessed clinically to determine tooth alignment. While, The oral hygiene condition was evaluated using the Oral Hygiene Index Simplified (OHI-S) test.
Results: The Chi-square test was applied to evaluate the data.According to the results of the current study,The average OHI-S score for subjects with a normally aligned teeth is 1.55 while Individuals with a crowding status display an average OHI-S score of 1.748. The study's findings indicate that there is no a significant correlation (p-value=0.317) between dental crowding and oral hygiene.
Conclusion: Teeth irregularities and crowding has little effect on oral hygiene.
References
1. Das PJ, Dkhar W, Pradhan A. An evaluation of dental crowding in relation to the mesiodistal crown widths and arch dimensions in southern Indian population. Journal of clinical and diagnostic research: JCDR. 2017 Sep;11(9):TC10.
2. Hussain SS, Ashraf B, Khan SQ. Relationship of dental crowding to tooth size and arch dimension in class I normal occlusion & class I malocclusion sample. Pakistan Oral & Dental Journal. 2014 Dec 1;34(4).
3. Yan-Vergnes W, Vergnes JN, Dumoncel J, Baron P, Marchal-Sixou C, Braga J. Asynchronous dentofacial development and dental crowding: a cross-sectional study in a contemporary sample of children in France. Journal of physiological anthropology. 2013 Dec;32:1-8.
4. Mustafa RA, Abuaffan AH. Evaluation of dental crowding and spacing in relation to tooth size and arch dimensions in a sample of sudanese adults. The Journal of Contemporary Dental Practice. 2021 Mar 1;22(3):253-8.
5. Lin TH, Hughes T, Meade MJ. The genetic and environmental contributions to variation in the permanent dental arch form: a twin study. European Journal of Orthodontics. 2023 Dec 1;45(6):868-74.
6. Manoharan S, Aravindkumar S. Assessment of oral health status in subjects with dental arch crowding - A retrospective study. Pal Arch's Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology. 2020 Nov 28;17(7):3182-90.
7. Abu Alhaija E, Al-Wahadni A. Relationship between tooth irregularity and periodontal disease in children with regular dental visits. Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry. 2006 Jul 1;30(4):296-8.
8. Shah PM, Jain RK, Chaudhary M. Prevalence of Chronic Gingivitis in Adolescents with Moderate Crowding of Dental Arches. Journal of Complementary Medicine Research. 2020 Nov 12;11(3):227.
9. Bernhardt O, Krey KF, Daboul A, Voelzke H, Kindler S, Kocher T, Schwahn C. New insights in the link between malocclusion and periodontal disease. Journal of clinical periodontology. 2019 Feb;46(2):144-59.
10. Bahirrah S. Relationship of crowded teeth and Oral Hygiene among urban population in Medan. InIOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 2018 Mar 1 (Vol. 126, No. 1, p. 012188).
11. Gul H. Effects of Dental Crowding on Oral Hygiene Index-Simplified (OHI-S) score in Adult Population of Lahore: An Analytical Study. Pakistan Journal of Medical & Health Sciences. 2023 Mar 6;17(02):132-.
12. Salim NA, Alamoush RA, Al-Abdallah MM, Al-Asmar AA, Satterthwaite JD. Relationship between dental caries, oral hygiene and malocclusion among Syrian refugee children and adolescents: a cross-sectional study. BMC Oral Health. 2021 Dec;21:1-8.
13. Rafiei E, Zandi H, Joshan N, Maybodi FR, Fallah R. Bacterial composition of subgingival plaque in crowded and non-crowded teeth. American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics. 2022 Mar 1;161(3):375-80.
14. Li M, Wu Z, Zhang R, Lei L, Ye S, Cheng R, Hu T. Comparison of oral health behaviour between dental and non-dental undergraduates in a university in southwestern China—exploring the future priority for oral health education. BMC oral health. 2020 Dec; 20:1-1.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
Categories
License
Copyright (c) 2024 Ghufran D. Awad

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
The Journal of Mustansiria Dental Journal is an open-access journal that all contents are free of charge. Articles of this journal are licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International Public License CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode) that licensees are unrestrictly allowed to search, download, share, distribute, print, or link to the full texts of the articles, crawl them for indexing and reproduce any medium of the articles provided that they give the author(s) proper credits (citation). The journal allows the author(s) to retain the copyright of their published article.
Creative Commons-Attribution (BY)