Table 2 shows that the majority of the subjects (62.8%) had
good oral hygiene status, more than a third (37.2%) had fair
oral hygiene and none of the orthodontic patients had poor oral
hygiene. There was no statistically significant gender differences
in the distribution of oral hygiene status (P>0.05) among the
subjects. The mean oral hygiene index, debris index and calculus
index were slightly higher among the males than females but
statistically insignificant (P>0.05) as shown in Table 3.