@article{Subido_Chua_Ofren_Sapungan_Dizon_Perez_Taclan_Fonacier_2019, title={Oral Health Practice, Incidence of Dental Caries, and Plaque Index of Visually Impaired Students: A Basis for the Development of Oral Hygiene Braille Manual: a Basis for the Development of Oral hygiene Braille Manual}, volume={7}, url={https://jurnal.unai.edu/index.php/isc/article/view/1028}, DOI={10.35974/isc.v7i1.1028}, abstractNote={<p>Oral health is an integral part of a person’s holistic health but it still an alarming health concern<br>in the Philippines. This research focused on visually impaired students. Blind patients have a<br>higher prevalence of dental caries because they cannot envision the plaque and caries in their<br>oral cavity and would often struggle to obtain dental care due to their increased anxiety.<br>This is a cross-sectional observational study that aimed to produce an oral hygiene braille<br>manual based on the extent of oral health practice, incidence of dental caries, and plaque index<br>of the visually impaired students in a local school that caters for visually impaired. The<br>questionnaire form has 3 parts: (1) consent form (2) demographic questions: sight impairment,<br>primary care giver’s income, age, gender (3) and questions concerning their oral hygiene<br>practice. Results were correlated with the student’s caries and plaque using the following index<br>: Decayed Missing Filled Teeth(DMFT)/Simplified Oral Hygiene Index (OHI-S) .<br>Seventeen (17) students participated in the study, ranging from grade levels 1-10 and ages<br>from 8-21 years old. Eight (8) out of seventeen (17) participants have low-vision while the rest<br>are totally blind. The participants’ monthly family income ranges from below 10,000-<br>20,000php. All correlations were statistically non-significant. But since Oral health practices,<br>plaque index, and caries incidence were fair there is a need for prevention to aim for good oral<br>health practice hence, the creation of a manual focused on preventive dentistry<br>This pilot research had limitations that might have lead to the non-significant results of the<br>study such as: limited sample size, Hawthorne effect and limitation of index used. Therefore,<br>the author recommends future researchers to improve the survey questionnaires and use a more<br>accurate index to a larger sample size.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Abstract Proceedings International Scholars Conference}, author={Subido, Nathalya Bmay and Chua, Denise Ann and Ofren, Lester Angelo and Sapungan, Gladys Mae and Dizon, Agnes Agadel and Perez, Roderick and Taclan, Lorcelie and Fonacier, Marian}, year={2019}, month={Dec.}, pages={347-366} }