Dipshikha Das|Ipseeta Menon|Ritu Gupta|Vikram Arora|Asifa Ashraf|Iram Ahsan
Oral health literacy: A practical strategy towards better oral health status among adult population of Ghaziabad district
despite tremendous considerable effort health professionals promote oral health create beautiful smiles gap oral health knowledge practice undoubtedly still remains thus aim study assess oral health literacy level impact socioeconomic oral health status among adult population ghaziabad districta total 600 study subjects aged 1864 years 4 blocks ghaziabad visiting various outreach programmes using multistage random sampling technique included study specially designed questionnaire assessed demographic variables oral health literacy level ohl assessed help bilingually adapted hindi ohl tool clinical examination recorded using world health organization oral health assessment form 2013the mean age study subjects 439 1436 years majority 300 50 study subjects inadequate oral health literacy level followed marginal oral health literacy level seen among 180 30 subjects 120 20 subjects adequate oral health literacy level oral health literacy level slightly higher among females compared male subjects although results statistically significant statistically significant difference found oral health literacy oral health status well socioeconomic status p value 005a significant association ohl oral health status found stating oral health literacy efficient role influencing oral health outcome individual