Assessment of Oral Health Status among the Sevayats of Shree Sakhigopal Temple, Puri - A Cross-sectional Study

Gunjan Kumar; Payal Dash; Ranjan M Tripathi; Sourabh Khandelwal; Oshin Sharma; Gitanjali Pany

doi:10.4103/jpbs.jpbs_56_24

Assessment of Oral Health Status among the Sevayats of Shree Sakhigopal Temple, Puri - A Cross-sectional Study

J Pharm Bioallied Sci. 2024 Jul;16(Suppl 3):S2088-S2090. doi: 10.4103/jpbs.jpbs_56_24. Epub 2024 Apr 3.

Authors

Gunjan Kumar¹, Payal Dash², Ranjan M Tripathi³, Sourabh Khandelwal⁴, Oshin Sharma⁵, Gitanjali Pany⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Public Health Dentistry, Kalinga Institute of Dental Sciences, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
² Medical Officer, Diet and Biomarker Survey-1, ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
³ Department of Public Health Dentistry, Index Institute of Dental Sciences, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.
⁴ Department of Prosthodontics and Crown and Bridge, Index Institute of Dental Sciences, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.
⁵ Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Government Autonomous College of Dentistry, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.
⁶ Department of Homescience, Ramadevi Women's University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

Abstract

Aim: To assess the oral health status of the Sevayats of Sakhigopal temple, Puri, Odisha.

Methodology: An assessment of the oral health status of 111 Sevayats at the Sakhigopal temple in Puri was carried out using a cross-sectional survey. The World Health Organization oral health assessment form for adults (2013) was used to collect data. Chi-square test and one-way analysis of variance were the statistical tests used for the investigation using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences 27 version. When the P value was less than 0.05, it was deemed statistically significant.

Results: The mean DMFT of all the participants was 3.70 ± 1.71. The prevalence of caries was 91%. Bleeding and periodontal pocket were present in 82.9% and 83.8% of Sevayats, respectively.

Conclusion: There was a higher prevalence of dental caries and periodontal disease among the subjects.

Keywords: Dental caries; Sevayats; oral health; periodontal diseases; periodontal pocket.