Early school leaving is often correlated to bad school performance.
The reported bad school performance might be a reflection of children's general state of life [ 43] as well as of their bad state of teeth.
Multivariate analysis showed that children who reported bad school performance, bad breath, food impaction, and caries experience and those visiting a dentist and being dissatisfied with appearance of teeth were more likely to report bad teeth status than their counterparts in the opposite groups (Table 3).
An additional explanation for the observed associations is that children of individuals with alcohol problems may face high levels of tension and stress at home, and that a stressful home environment may lead to communication problems, bad school performances, and, ultimately, to the development of autism and ADHD (Berger, 1993).
For a while I felt that I was in a bad high school performance".
Multivariate logistic regression showed significant associations between schoolchildren who reported to have bad teeth and poor school performance (Odds Ratio (OR) = 2.5), having bad breath (OR = 2.4), food impaction (OR = 1.7) dental visits (OR = 1.6), being dissatisfied with appearance of teeth (OR = 4.2) and caries experience (OR = 1.7).
The self-reported bad state of teeth was associated with poor school performance, having bad breath and food impaction, having visited a dentist, being dissatisfied with teeth appearance and having caries experience.
This study revealed that 23% of schoolchildren reported the state of teeth to be bad and more so among children with poor school performance, having bad breath and food impaction, those who visited a dentist, were dissatisfied with appearance of teeth and had caries experience.
The children most likely to report bad state of teeth were children dissatisfied with appearance of the teeth (OR = 4.2), children who reported poor school performance (OR = 2.5) and children who reported bad breath (OR = 2.4).
His school performance was extremely poor and his behaviour bad.
Self-reported state of teeth was significantly associated with poor school performance, self-reported oral problems in terms of bad breath and food impaction, dental visits, dissatisfaction with appearance of teeth and having caries experience (Table 3).
