Elemente cheie în menținerea igienei orale la un grup de adulți tineri din Germania și România [Key elements of maintaining good oral hygiene in German and Romanian young adults]

Abstract

The primary objective of this study was to investigate the awareness of oral health and the usage of oral hygiene tools by Romanian and German young adults. This was a retrospective statistical study, where 92 German citizens and 83 people from Romania were investigated by means of an anonymous online questionnaire. While 39.8% of the Romanians seek the dental office twice a year for regular dental control and prophylaxis just 18.5% of the Germans do so. The outcome of this study proves that the majority of the German people prefer to go to the dental cabinet once per year (47.8%) compared to 31.3% of the Romanians. Most people like to brush their teeth twice a day- 62.7% of the Romanians and 81.5% of the Germans. Some important differences were established but for validation of the results revealed in this work additional investigations are desirable.