Oral Hygiene Practice and Its Relation with Stress among the Adult Patient Visiting the National Guard Hospital and Military Hospital in Madinah

Abstract

Background: Stress is increasing day by day in everyone's life and it is likely to contribute to the progressive long term development of oral diseases. It can motivate individuals to cope in unhealthy ways that foster oral diseases. Chronic stress also contributes to high allostatic load that can lead to the dysfunction of physiological systems critical to homeostasis, and thus affect the underlying mechanisms of diseases progression, more generally.