Orthodontic is one of the dental treatment that has a purpose to repair the position of teeth. For patient who wears fixed orthodontic appliance will have an enhancement of accumulation of plaque which caused by the diffulty of removing the plaque it self, with the result that higher risk of gingivitis may occur in patient using fixed orthodontic appliance. The purpose of this study is to give an overview of gingivitis in first year students of medical and health faculty who used fixed orthodontic appliance. Statistic method which is applied to analyze this study is descriptive data analysis test method. Index measurement that is used in this study is gingiva Loe and Silness Index (Gingivval Index). The result from this study is 89% of student who used fixed orthodontic appliance having lower risk of gingivitis criteria.
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