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Majority of the patients ( 66.94 %) had poor oral hygiene status . Maximum patients with poor oral hygiene status fall in the 60-69 year of age group ( 21.9 %) whereas ≥70 year of age group constitutes only 4.13 % patients having poor oral hygiene status .
There was statistical significant difference reported when oral hygiene status were tested with gender , where else no such difference was reported for age groups ( table 4 ).
Table 4 : Gender and age group distribution of OHI-S among HNC and oral cancer patients
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