KNOWLEDGE WITH DENTAL AND ORAL HYGIENE IN DEAF CHILDREN

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Background: Knowledge of dental and oral health is one of the efforts to prevent and overcome dental health problems through the approach of dental and oral health education. Hearing loss is one of the causes of the lack of knowledge of deaf people to maintain dental and oral hygiene and affect their attitudes and behavior in maintaining dental and oral hygiene.  The purpose: from this study is to find out the relationship with dental and oral hygiene in deaf people at SLB Yayasan Bahagia Tasikmalaya City.  Method: This type of research is quantitative analytics with cross sectional design. Samples taken by puposive sampling technique, the number of samples as many as 20 samples. Data collection uses questionnaires on dental hygiene knowledge and OHI-S examinations of deaf people.   Results: research shows that there is a relationship between knowledge and dental and oral hygiene in deaf people at SLB Yayasan Bahagia Tasikmalaya City with the results of statistical tests of significance of 0.030 (<0.05) with corelation coeffition (0.486%) sufficient, it can be concluded that there is a relationship between knowledge and dental hygiene and mouth on deaf presenters at SLB Yayasan Bahagia Tasikmalaya City. Conclusion: There is a knowledge relationship with dental hygiene in deaf people at SLB Yayasan Bahagia Tasikmalaya City.