Factors associated with dental attendance and tooth brushing among adolescents in Amara city

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Sample of 610 adolescents from varying social background by combining a questionnaire with clinical examination.

Tooth brushing was found to be an integral part of tooth personal hygiene and grooming behavior.

The subject was influence by family.

The lack of dental knowledge, the belief that tooth loss is an inevitable part of ageing together with lack of faith in the ability of tooth brush to preserve the dentition with socioeconomic level of family could well explain why dental attendance and tooth brushing Is not strongly health-related.

The study shows that females are more using tooth brushing than males and there is strong relations between attendance dental clinics, tooth brushing with socioeconomic Level of families