Title

The oral health hygiene data among the paliyan and pulayan tribes in India

Authors

Srisakthi Dorai Kannan*, Meignana Arumugham Indiran & R. Pradeep Kumar

Affiliation

Department of Public Health Dentistry, Saveetha Dental College,Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical sciences (SIMATS), Saveetha University, Tamil Nadu, 600 077, India

Email

Srisakthi Dorai Kannan Email id- srisakthi@saveetha.com, Corresponding author*

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received October 7, 2020; Revised October 27, 2020; Accepted October 27, 2020; Published December 31, 2020

It is of interest to document the The Oral Health heigene data among the paliyan and pulayan tribes in India. The Paliyan and Pulayan tribes inhabit a narrow strip of Western Ghats in the hilly regions of Madurai, Dindigul, Theni, Tirunelveli and Virudhunagar districts of Tamil Nadu. Subjects aged 5yrs and above are used in this study. The WHO assessment form was used to
assess the oral health status. Results show that 589 (58%) ignored the oral health problems, 225 (22.2%) relied on self-medications, 142 (14%) consulted a general physician, 35 (3.5%) had visited a dentist and the remaining 23 (2.3%) were dependent upon over the counter medications from a pharmacy. Thus, the prosthetic need was highest among the 55 + yrs age group, 36 (48.6%) required maxillary prosthesis and 21 (28.4%) required mandibular prosthesis.

Keywords

The oral health hygiene data among the paliyan and pulayan tribes in India

Citation

Kannan et al. Bioinformation 16(12): 1113-1118 (2020)

Edited by

P Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.