Gender determines children's dental hygiene
Children are the young generation who become the forerunners of future leaders. Children’s dental and oral hygiene depends on how they can maintain. Some research shows that gender could determine dental and oral hygiene in children.
Girls more likely have a better oral health, it because girls tends to take more care of their dental and oral hygiene.
Girls also have better behavior of maintaining oral hygiene than boys, this is presumed by the psychological differences of children. Boys are tend to pay less attention to their physical health condition, including oral health. This is also influenced by genetic differences of girls and boys, in which boys have lower levels of emotional control than girls.
The psychological development of children also affects the children’s ability to maintain oral hygiene. In the early to middle adolescent phase, an identity crisis occurs. Children at this age tend to show a rebuttal towards their parents. This rebuttal attitude affect the quality of children to maintain oral hygiene because parents find a difficulty to direct their children to take care or take precaution of their oral health.
The maturity level of boys and girls is different. Generally, girls mature faster compare to boys. Girls reach adulthood starting at the age of 12 years while boys are around the age of 16. The faster maturity level in girls presumed to be the trigger for girls to maintain their teeth and mouth healthier than boys. In addition, girls have attraction to the opposite sex more quickly, so that they make more efforts to look beautiful in order to attract their opposite sex. They try to always brush their teeth as best as they can to promote interaction with the environment.
The difference of children's oral and dental hygiene are also influenced by their anxiety level about dental care. Mostly, girls are more anxiety than boys, this situation makes girls take more precautions of their dental and oral health than boys.
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