Data on periodontal health among elderly people in Bushland, Jharkhand, Magadha and Patna, India

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Title	Data on periodontal health among elderly people in Bushland, Jharkhand, Magadha and Patna, India
Authors	Silpi Chatterjee^{1, *}, Minti Yadav Reader¹, Anurag Rai², Tanoj Kumar³, Akash Tripathi⁴ & Shruti Gupta⁵
Affiliation	¹Department of Public Healthiness Dentistry, Hazaribag College of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Jharkhand, India; ²Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedics Government Dental College and Hospital, Patna, India;³Department of Oral Pathology Government Dental College and Hospital, Patna, India; ⁴Department of Periodontology. Hazaribag College of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Jharkhand, India; ⁵Department of Periodontology, Rama dental college, Hospital & Research Centre, Kanpur,India; Corresponding author*
Email	Dr. Silpi Chatterjee, Email id - dr.silpi510@gmail.com;
Article Type	Research Article
Date	Received December 5, 2020; Revised December 31, 2020; Accepted January 2, 2020, Published January 31, 2021
Abstract	It is of interest to report data on periodontal Health among elderly people in Bushland, Jharkhand, Magadha and Patna, India. The sample comprised of a 130 elderly people. The studies device comprised of a semi-structured survey with thirteen questions. Data shows that old people in Jharkhand suffered from advanced periodontal ailment (47.6%) with easy gingivitis (33.8%). Data also shows that grownups (88.2% grownup males, 64.5% girls in Jharkhand and 34.5% grownup males and 88.9% girls in Bihar) used toothpaste and toothbrush as their primary style for tooth cleansing. These data help in providing improved dental service to rural population in India.
Keywords	Oral cleanliness, periodontal health, pathogenic organism, PI scores.
Citation	Chatterjee et al. Bioinformation 17(1): 53-59 (2021)
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.