Hubungan Pengetahuan Cara Memelihara Kesehatan Gigi dengan Keterampilan Menyikat Gigi pada Ibu Hamil di Kabupaten Karangasem tahun 2021

Abstract

Dental and oral health is a healthy condition of the hard tissue and soft tissue of the teeth and related elements in the oral cavity, which allows individuals to eat, talk and interact socially without dysfunction, aesthetic disturbances and discomfort due to disease, such as debris, tartar. and food residue and bad breath. Health are affected by the knowledge factor which is the result of "knowing" and this occurs after a person using senses consisting of the five human senses. The aim of this research is to determine the relationship between the level of knowledge on how to maintain dental health and the skills of brushing teeth among pregnant women in Karangasem Regency in 2021. This type of research is analytical research using a total population of 48 respondents. The research results showed that the percentage of knowledge of very good criteria was 65%, good criteria was 25%, sufficient criteria was 8%, poor criteria was 2%. The averagevalueis 80.7. The percentage of toothbrushing skills with very good criteria is 13%, with good criteria being 38%, sufficient criteria being 20%, and needing guidance criteria being 29% and the average value of toothbrushing skill being 65.6. Data analysis using the Spearman correlation test obtained a significance result of 0.037<0.05. The conclusion is that the averagevalue ofknowledge is 80.7 very good criteria and the average value of tootbrushing skill is 65.6 sufficient criteria. There is a relationship between knowledge and tooth brushing skills in pregnant women.