Dental health contributes to general health, wellness as well as self-esteem and quality-
oflife. Cost and fear are routinely cited as the largest barriers to care. Dental health neglect …

Methods A cross-sectional house to house survey was carried out among 275 study
subjects, 6–15 years old tribal children in two major tribal districts of Indore division …

Aim To evaluate the oral health status, self-assessment of oral health, and oral health risks
among tribes in Tamil Nadu, India. Materials and methods An epidemiological cross …

Background: Self-perceived orthodontic treatment need is strongly influenced by what is
perceived to be the esthetic norm amongst a community, and reluctance toward treatment …

Abstract Background The Halba tribe owes its nomenclature term “Hal” which locally means
plowing or farming. Bastariya Halba is Dravidian tribe from Warangal. They speak Indo …

Methods A cross-sectional house to house survey was carried out among 800 tribal children
aged 5 to 15 years old in two major tribal districts of Indore division. Permissions and …

Materials and Methods: Of the 819 adolescents screened in the age group of 13–19 years,
63%(516) were boys and 37%(303) were girls. The evaluated occlusion of the students was …

Aim: The aim of the present study is to correlate the prevalence of dental caries with the
body mass index (BMI) among tribal schoolchildren of 6–16 years in Shantivan, Nere …

Results: Among 800 participants, 458 were illiterate, and 342 were literate. The prevalence
of dental caries was 49% among the illiterates while literates had 50.4% prevalence and the …

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the orthodontic status and perceived orthodontic
treatment needs of 2016 tribal adolescents screened in the Paderu Revenue Division of …