Dental hygiene in adolescents (ages 14-19)

Author: Marie Kubričanová Institution: Institute of social medicine Faculty of medicine in Hradec Králové Title: Dental hygiene adolescents Supervisor: prof. PhDr. Jiří Mareš, CSc. Count of pages: 77 Count of attached pages: 1 Year of completion: 2015 Keywords: Oral health, dental hygiene, preventive programs, the most common oral disease, dental hygienist profession The bachelor thesis consists of a theoretical and a practical part. In the theoretical part, findings related to the oral hygiene, oral health, dental care and preventive programs are presented. The practical part refers about research carried out on 96 teenagers in the age of 14 to 19, about their familiarity with this issue and expected responding on dental care in this age group. All adolescents say they visit a dentist, mostly for preventive reasons, most of them report to brush the teeth twice per day, state general satisfaction with their teeth and the dentist. Taking the fact of the responents being in the growing up phase into consideration, it is probable to identify here theso called effect of social desiderability. Discussion and conclusions sum up the obtained results