DOI: 10.36347/sjds.2016.v03i08.002

Pages: 220-227

Abstract: The purposes of this study were to investigate the prevalence of self reported halitosis and its association with habit of smoking, systemic diseases, medications, oral hygiene habits and oral health status among undergraduate dental student. A questionnaire based study was carried out at school of dentistry, university of sulaimani among undergraduate dental students; the subjects consist of 103 dental students, 38(36.89%) of participant were male and 65(63.10%) were female. The questionnaire was distributed all the dental students, each dental student had to fill up questionnaire such as patient age, sex, systemic diseases, medications, smoking habit, oral health behaviours, oral health status, and presence or absence of halitosis. Chi square test was used to analyse the data. Prevalence of self reported halitosis was 28.15%. It was more prevalent among females (63.10%) than males (36.89%) but not significantly (P>0.05). Prevalence of halitosis was higher among patients with systemic diseases (34.28%) than patients without systemic diseases (25%) however it was not statistically significant (P=0.32). Prevalence of halitosis was significantly high among patients who were using medication and among smoker patients (P<0.05). With some exceptions , prevalence of halitosis was lower among patients practicing oral hygiene habits than patients who were not practicing oral hygiene habits however it was not statistically significant (P>0.05). Prevalence of halitosis was higher among patients who had xerostomia, bleeding gum when brushing, coated tongue, bleeding gum spontaneously than patients who were not having these conditions but not significantly (P>0.05). Majority of patients reported halitosis when wake up (65.51%). there is a relatively high prevalence of halitosis among dental student ;prevalence of self reported halitosis was higher among females than males, prevalence of halitosis was higher among patients with systemic diseases than patients without