Oral Hygiene Practices and their Socio-demographic Correlates among Adults in Burkina Faso: Results from the First National Survey

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Abstract Background: Socio-demographic parameters are the driving determinants for oral hygiene practices. This purpose aims to describe oral hygiene practices and associated socio-demographic factors in Burkinabè population, using the first nationally-representative data.Methods: This descriptive, cross-sectional study included 4677 adults through multistage cluster sampling performed during the first WHO STEPS survey conducted in 2013 in Burkina Faso. The practices we considered were the frequencies of tooth cleaning, the fluoridated toothpaste use and a dentist visit within the last six months. Sociodemographic variables and oral hygiene practices were described and the first ones were used as the explanatory variables for the seconds in the multivariable analyses. Results: Individuals who cleaned teeth at least once a day represented 82.8% and at least twice a day 31.4%; those who used fluoridated toothpaste were 25.6% and 2.1% have visited a dentist. With the highest odds-ratio, only being educated was a favorable factor for each of oral hygiene practices. Living in an urban area or being younger adults were favorable factors to the daily repetitive tooth cleaning or the use of a fluoridated paste. Female gender applied more to a daily repetitive cleaning, as well as to the dentist visit.Conclusion: Cleaning teeth at least once a day was common among Burkinabè while cleaning at least twice a day, the use of fluoridated paste or dentist visiting were infrequent. Education was the key favorable determinant for healthy oral hygiene practices and improving oral health literacy interventions through basic health education should be promoted.

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