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Introduction: Oral health of an individual depends on awareness and attitude. People with inadequate oral health knowledge and awareness is more likely to have oral disease.
Objective: To assess the knowledge, attitude and practice among patients visiting dental outpatient departments of Kathmandu district.
Materials and Method: A descriptive cross-sectional study of knowledge, attitude and practice of oral hygiene among patients visiting dental outpatient departments of three selected dental clinics of Kathmandu district. Patients were evaluated by semi-structured questionnaire.
Result: The mean age of the respondents was 26.3 years whereas most of them were of the age group 16-24 years (42%). Results showed that almost all the respondents were using tooth brush (98%) and tooth paste (96%) to clean their teeth while 79% of the respondents were brushing teeth twice daily while 15% respondents were brushing teeth once in a day and only 6% of respondents were brushing more than twice a day. This study also showed that 47% of the respondents were not aware of interdental cleaning tools like interdental brush while 45% of the respondents were using dental floss to clean their teeth.
Conclusion: This study showed that despite being aware of the problems of poor oral hygiene, the practice was minimal. There was limited knowledge about brushing techniques and frequency of its use, oral hygiene aids such as interdental brush and dental floss.

Attitude; knowledge; oral hygiene; practice.