Abstract

INFLUENCE OF ORAL HEALTH ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN SCHOOL CHILDREN-META ANALYSIS

*B. Yamini, B. Mounika, A. Vaishnavi, S. K. Nagoor Babu and Dr. Y. Prapurna Chandra

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Abstract

Oral health can harmful to children’s quality of life, academic performance, and future success and goals and achievements. It may results in oral health problems in appetite loss, depression, increased in attentiveness, and distractibility from play and school work and which can lower self-esteem and contributes to the academic failure. An oral health in school students, which enables them to retain good oral health the rest of their lives. The most effective for promoting behavioural changes in children health actively promotes by enhancing of its ability to serve as a healthy place to live, learn and work, bring health and education together. Health promoting school is one of the joint objectives are the WHO and UNICEF. Class room interventions in reducing the dental caries incidence and improving oral hygiene behaviour among school children. About 24.2% of children were reported to have fair, poor, and very poor oral health.

Keywords: Oral health, school children academic performance, interventions.