Third year Post-Graduate student, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Rajasthan Dental College and Hospital, Jaipur.

Associate Professor,Department of Public Health Dentistry, Rajasthan Dental College and Hospital, Jaipur.

Senior lecturer, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Rajasthan Dental College and Hospital, Jaipur.

Senior lecturer, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Rajasthan Dental College and Hospital, Jaipur.

Third year Post-Graduate student, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Rajasthan Dental College and Hospital, Jaipur.

Third year Post-Graduate student, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Rajasthan Dental College and Hospital, Jaipur.
Dentition ,engineering ,students ,treatment ,

Introduction: Oral health is a vital component of general health & influences one’s quality of life and well-being. The young college students play a vital role in health promotion and preventive information dissemination among the family and their society. Objectives: To assess the dentition status and treatment needs of engineering students in Jaipur city, Rajasthan. Materials and Methods: A total of 469 subjects selected from five Engineering colleges randomly from all parts of the city. The proforma included questions on oral hygiene practices, dentition status, and treatment needs. Data thus collected subjected to statistical analysis using frequency distribution and chi-square test. Results: Among the total subjects, 54.6% (256) of the subjects were males and 45.4% (213) were females in the study. 53.7% of the subjects had decayed teeth. However, frequency of filled teeth (4.3%), missing teeth due to caries (4.1%), bridge abutment (0.4%) and trauma (5.6%) was small. The decayed, missing, and filled teeth (DMFT) score was 0.3±.46. Conclusion: Dental caries among the engineering students was found to be high and were more in males when compared to the females.

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