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. 2015 Aug;7(Suppl 2):S509-12.
doi: 10.4103/0975-7406.163520.

Coalition of attitude and practice behaviors among dental practitioners regarding pregnant patient's oral health and pregnant patient's perception toward oral health in and around Pondicherry

S Jeelani  1 , K Abdul Khader  1 , R Vishwanath Rangdhol  1 , A Dany  2 , Swetha Paulose  1
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Coalition of attitude and practice behaviors among dental practitioners regarding pregnant patient's oral health and pregnant patient's perception toward oral health in and around Pondicherry

S Jeelani et al. J Pharm Bioallied Sci. 2015 Aug.

Abstract

Background: This study aims to evaluate the knowledge, attitude, practice behaviors among general dental practitioners and assess the perception toward oral health by pregnant patients in and around Puducherry.

Methodology: A self-designed and structured questionnaire was used to obtain information from the dental practitioner and the pregnant patients.

Results: The majority of the dental practitioners had a lack of knowledge, attitude, practice behaviors regarding pregnant patient's oral health and similarly majority of pregnant patient's perception toward oral health was poor.

Conclusions: Drowning and dilemmatic attitude and practice behavior of dentists to be streamlined to render right care to the pregnant women at the right time. Perplexing perception toward oral health care by pregnant women to be overcome to orient them to understand the impact of oral health on their general systemic health.

Keywords: Attitude; dentist; oral health; pregnancy.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest: None declared.

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Questionnaire on the attitude and practise behaviours among private practitioners
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Questionnaire on the attitude and practise behaviours among private practitioners
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Questionnaire on the attitude and practise behaviours among private practitioners
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Questionnaire on the perception towards oral health by pregnant women.
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Questionnaire on the perception towards oral health by pregnant women.
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Questionnaire on the perception towards oral health by pregnant women
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