Psychosocial Impact of Malocclusion among Adolescents

Siti Bahirrah

2019

Abstract

Introduction: Adolescence is a transitional period into adulthood from childhood. During the time of growth and development, adolescents will often be facing an oral health problem. One of the problems encountered by them will be a malocclusion. Malocclusion is defined as an occlusion which deviates from the standard categorized as normal. Malocclusion may be caused setbacks to the person which will affect the psychosocial condition of the adolescents. Methods: The aim of this research is to determine the effect of malocclusion towards the psychosocial condition based on Aesthetic Component and PIDAQ among senior high school adolescents. Chi-square test was used in this research. This is descriptive analytics research. The population of this research was the student's senior high school with a total of 963 people who were then selected by simple random sampling method. The sample size of the research is 100 people. Conclusion: This shows that no effect was found between malocclusion and psychosocial condition among adolescents.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Bahirrah S. (2019). Psychosocial Impact of Malocclusion among Adolescents.In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease - Volume 1: ICTROMI, ISBN 978-989-758-469-5, pages 189-193. DOI: 10.5220/0009863101890193

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ictromi19,
author={Siti Bahirrah},
title={Psychosocial Impact of Malocclusion among Adolescents},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease - Volume 1: ICTROMI,},
year={2019},
pages={189-193},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009863101890193},
isbn={978-989-758-469-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease - Volume 1: ICTROMI,
TI - Psychosocial Impact of Malocclusion among Adolescents
SN - 978-989-758-469-5
AU - Bahirrah S.
PY - 2019
SP - 189
EP - 193
DO - 10.5220/0009863101890193