Oral hygiene and periodontal status among Terapanthi Svetambar Jain monks in India

• Main Authors: Manish Jain (Author), Anmol Mathur (Author), Santhosh Kumar (Author), Prabu Duraiswamy (Author), Suhas Kulkarni (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa Odontológica, 2009-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The main objective of the study was to determine the oral hygiene levels and periodontal status among Jain monks attending a Chaturmass in Udaipur, India. To date, no study has been conducted on Jain monks. The study comprises of 180 subjects and the overall response rate was 76% among them. Oral hy...