World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

ATTITUDE OF DENTAL AND MEDICAL STUDENTS TO ORAL HEALTH BEHAVIOR OF PATNA

Dr. Avanindra Kumar*, Dr. abhishek kumar, Dr. Tanoj Kumar, Dr. Supriya singh, Dr. Jazib Nazeer, Dr. Rohit singh

ABSTRACT

The Hiroshima University Dental Behaviors Inventory (HU-DBI) was used to assess the attitudes towards oral health behavior of the medical and dental college students at Patna. HU-DBI consists of 15 items primarily associated with tooth brushing behavior. All of the items have a agree/disagree response format. A quantitative estimate of oral health attitude and behavior is provided by the total appropriate agree/disagree responses. A total of 114 students participated in the survey with a response rate of 71%. There was a significant difference (p=0.0001) between dental and medical college students for oral health attitudes with dental students presenting a mean HU-DBI score of 6.65 in contrast to 4.74 among medical students. Significantly greater percentage of medical students (83.9%) reported that they don’t worry much about visiting the dentist than the dental students (53.8%). Nearly three-fourths of medical students believed that their teeth was getting worse despite of daily brushing and significantly more medical students were worried about bad breath Dental college students reported better attitudes to oral health behavior than students of medical.

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