The practice of personal hygiene of the mouth. It includes the maintenance of oral cleanliness, tissue tone, and general preservation of oral health.

Annotation

differentiate from ORAL HEALTH; oral hyg is care toward maintaining good oral health performed by the person himself or a caregiver in the case of invalid or Persons with Disabilities; differentiate also from DENTAL CARE, care by professionals; for oral hyg using dental floss, water picks, etc. use DENTAL DEVICES, HOME CARE or TOOTHBRUSHING

DUI

D009910 MeSH Browser

CUI

M0015368

Previous indexing

Oral Health (1966-1972)

History note

73; DENTAL HYGIENE was heading 1963-64, was see DENTAL PROPHYLAXIS 1991

Online note

use DENTAL PROPHYLAXIS to search DENTAL HYGIENE 1991

Public note

73; DENTAL HYGIENE was heading 1963-64, was see DENTAL PROPHYLAXIS 1991