HUBUNGAN ANTARA FREKUENSI MENGGOSOK GIGI DENGAN KEJADIAN CARIES DENTIS PADA SISWA KELAS II SD NEGERI SUMBER AGUNG II KLEGO

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Ratna Indriati
Rahayu Setyaningsih
Tri Susilowati

Abstract

Background. Incidence of dental caries in primary school children is still
relatively high. This corresponds to a pattern of wrong eating habits, a
supportive environment such bad habits like sweet snacks, less fibrous and
easily sticky. In addition the frequency of irregular brushing teeth also contribute
to the occurrence of dental caries.
The purpose this study was to determine the relationship between the
frequency of brushing teeth with dental caries incidence of grade 2 students
SDN Sumberagung II Klego. The hypothesis taken by the researchers is
suspected there is a relationship between the frequency of brushing teeth with
dental caries incidence in Class 2 SDN Sumberagung II Klego. This study was
conducted in SDN II Suberagung Klego.
Methods used is the correlation method with cross sectional approach, the
number of samples of 50 people the sampling technique used is total sampling
The conclusion From the results of data processing, the chi squere obtained x2
count equal to 9.314 and 3.841 on the table at the 0.05 significance level and
degrees of freedom equal to 1 so that the count is greater than x2 table which
means there is a relationship between the frequency of brushing teeth with
dental caries incidence in 2nd grade students of SDN Sumberagung II Klego.
This shows that with regular brushing can minimize the occurrence of dental
caries
Keywords : Dentis caries, Dental Care and Teeth Brushing

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