Impact of Dental Health Education on Oral Healthcare Seeking Behaviour and Self-Reported Dental Conditions Among Public Servants in Ogun State

Positive oral healthcare behaviour is crucial in promoting optimal health because delay in diagnosis or poor treatment of oral conditions predisposes individuals to local and systemic ill-health. This study adopted a pretest-posttest control group quasi-experimental design with 160 participants selected through multi-stage sampling. Validated instruments and Dental Care Seeking Education and Training were used. Three hypotheses were tested using ANCOVA at 0.05 level of significance. Findings revealed that dental health education had significant effect on oral healthcare-seeking behaviour and reported oral ill-health condition. There was no significant effect of gender and educational status. The study concluded that dental health education intervention is a potent tool to improve oral health-seeking behaviour and recommended incorporating dental health education into school curriculum.