Muhammad Kaleem, Marya Jawad.
Association between socio-demographic features, oral hygiene practices & oral health utilization services among patients seen at AFID.
Pak Oral Dental J Jan ;36(1):110-5.

Although oral health is an integral part of general health but is ignored both individually and at community level. This study was aimed to find out the association between socio demographic features and oral hygiene practices, and oral health utilization services among individuals seen at a tertiary care hospital of military set up. Descriptive cross sectional study although revealed relatively positive outcome yet 23.3% never visited for dental checkup. People usually visit dentist when they have some kind of symptoms like pain. Individuals living in urban areas significantly tend to avail more oral health utilization services than people living in rural areas because of more facilities available in urban areas than in rural areas. Older age group significantly visited dentists than young individuals. This may explain the reason that older individuals tend to have more dental problems. Education do have impact on the use of modern tools. A very good proportion of individuals (95.6%) know that health of teeth is vital for health of body and it is mainly due to awareness imparted from military based community set up. A wide national coverage is required to make this data more valid on the oral health service utilization and usual oral health practices among Pakistani population as well as socio demographic factors which had a major influence.

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