An Evaluation of High School Female Student’s Knowledge and Behaviour Regarding Oral Hygiene

In today’s world, due to incensement of communication and different social relationship between people, oral health andaesthetic are considered more important than the past. the aim of this study was to assess the level of knowledge and behaviourof gonbadkavoos, northern iran high school female students regarding their oral hygiene and health status. in thisdescriptive study cluster, sampling technique was used to select 300 samples. the level of knowledge of each individualwas assessed according to their information on the causes of caries, the preventive effect of fluoride supplement and so on.in terms of their oral health behaviour, tooth brushing frequency, use of dental floss and regular dentist visit were recorded.results revealed that 80% of the students were aware of the fluoride preventive action and 18% of them replied, i don’tknow, to this question. parents were identified as their main source of oral health information by 68.3% of them and 12.6%identified the microbial activity as the main cause of dental caries. 44.3% of students expressed lack of time as the mainreason for irregular dentist visit and 70% of them stated, only upon dental problems, referred to the dentist. sixty two percentof the students brushed their teeth regularly. it is recommended to do similar researches on the level of knowledge andbehaviour, about dental and oral health in other populations.