Hubungan Tingkat Pengetahuan Ortodonti Dengan Kepatuhan Kontrol Pasien Ortodonti Cekat Di Klinik Gigi Swasta

2021-04-13

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Thepublic interest in applyingdental orthodontic treatment fortheir misaligned teeth (malocclusion) is increasing. The results of the preliminary study showed that 60% of orthodontic users had poor oral and dental hygiene due to their disobedience onthe routine visits. Disobedience in routine visits is caused by lack of knowledge. Knowledge greatly influences a person’s behavior.Knowledge-based behaviors will be more lasting than the ones that are not knowledge-based. Objective: To examine the relationship between the knowledge level of orthodontics and the visit obedience of patients with fixed orthodontic at private dental clinic. Method : This is an analytical survey research using the cross-sectional approach. The total sampling was also used in this research. The research instruments used Google Form and visit obedience format. The data analysis used the Kendall’s Tau C. correlation test. Results: The knowledge level of orthodontics was 64.9% for the Good category, 21.6% for the Acceptable category, and 13.5% for the Poor category. The visit obedience was 75.7%, and the visit disobedience was 24.4%. The result of the Kendall’s Tau C.correlation test was 0.002, hence there was a relationship between the knowledge level of orthodontics and the visit obedience of patients with fixed orthodontic.The correlation value was 0.456 with moderate relationship strength and positive relationship direction. Conclusion: The higher the knowledge level of orthodontics, the more obedient the patients are. Keywords: Knowledge level, visit obedience, fixed orthodontic.