A Comparative Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Brushing Techniques on the Primary School Children's of the Selected Schools of Bagalkot, Karnataka, India

Introduction: The oral hygiene practices are very low among primary school students and the incidence of dental problems is high. Objectives: To assess Brushing technique on the primary school children’s of selected schools of Bagalkot.” Methods: A comparative study with a sample of 120 children, aged between, 6 years to 14 year children’s was selected by proportionate stratified random sampling technique. Structured questionnaire was used to collect baseline information, Results: A significant association was found on bvvs showsthat (90%) of children’s had Average level of Brushing technique 10% school childrens had Good Brushing technique. Here mean is 44.4, Median 44, standard deviation, is about 3.16,and Range is about,44.5 of the bvvs school childrens (p<.000) shri motagi basaveshwara pre primary ,junior primary school bgk shows that (96.6%) of children’s had Average level of Brushing technique 0% school children had Good and (3.3%) of children had a poor Brushing technique. Here mean is 43.2, Median 43, standard deviation, is about 4.09,and Range is about,43.3 of the schools (p<.004) at 5% level of significance. Conclusion: There is significance difference between the brushing technique on basaveshwara pre primary ,junior primary school childrens and shri motagi basaveshwara pre primary ,junior primary school children.