{"doi":"10.1111/jphd.12677","title":"Factors Associated With Oral Hygiene Practices Among Young Mexican‐Identifying Southern Californians","abstract":"PURPOSE: To examine factors associated with oral hygiene behaviors among young Mexican-identifying adults. METHODS: Survey data from 340 Mexican-identifying adults aged 21-40 years residing in US-Mexico border regions in California were analyzed. Outcomes included the frequency of toothbrushing and flossing in the last 7 days. Independent variables included predisposing sociodemographic characteristics (age, sex at birth, marital status, education, place of birth, language preference), predisposing beliefs (perceived oral health importance, self-reported oral health status), enabling factors (dental insurance, usual source of care, dental visit in last year), needs (perceived current dental care need), and external environment (COVID-19 impact). Negative binomial regression analyses examined associations after controlling for covariates. RESULTS: Approximately half the participants were female (57%), single (54%), and preferred Spanish language (48%). Mean participant age was 29.6 ± 5.7 years. Toothbrushing frequency was greater for those who were US-born versus foreign-born (incidence rate ratio [IRR] = 1.16, CI = 1.03-1.28), those who had a dental visit in the past year versus more than a year ago (IRR = 1.15, CI = 1.03-1.28), and higher with increasing oral health importance ratings (IRR = 1.04, CI = 1.01-1.06). Flossing frequency was greater for those who had a past year dental visit versus more than a year ago (IRR = 1.79, CI = 1.37-2.33). CONCLUSION: Improving perceptions of oral health importance and encouraging dental visits could enable increased oral hygiene behaviors among young Mexican-American identifying adults.","journal":"Journal of Public Health Dentistry","year":2025,"id":566360,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.8959,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2025-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":312683,"name":"Donna Kritz‐Silverstein","orcid":"0000-0003-0872-636X","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1316687,"name":"Lourdes S. Martinez","orcid":"0000-0001-8011-120X","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":333521,"name":"Jerel P. Calzo","orcid":"0000-0002-4656-1052","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":310226,"name":"David R. Strong","orcid":"0000-0002-5383-9032","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":632059,"name":"Kristin S. Hoeft","orcid":"0000-0001-6642-3231","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":420479,"name":"Tracy L. Finlayson","orcid":"0000-0003-2457-4183","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1316688,"name":"Aachal Devi","orcid":"0000-0002-0965-7581","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":33,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T02:56:36.440192Z","pmid":"40384337","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}