School Children Knowledge Regarding Dental Hygiene

School Children Knowledge Regarding Dental Hygiene

School health education services are an economical and powerful means of raising standard of community health, especially for the future generations. School is considered as a best setting for the positive health and prevention of diseases, awakening health consciousness in which the child grows and develops. A pre-experimental study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of structured teach...

Parents’ Dental Knowledge and Oral Hygiene Habits in Slovak Children

Assessment of Knowledge Regarding Oral Hygiene among Parents of Pre-School Children Attending Pediatric Out Patient Department in Dhulikhel Hospital.

BACKGROUND Level of knowledge regarding oral hygiene among the parents of pre-school children plays an important role on maintaining the good oral hygiene of their children. In Nepal, sufficient research has not been carried out on this area. OBJECTIVE Objective of this study is to assess the level of knowledge on oral hygiene of preschool children's parents attending pediatric outpatient dep...

Moving research knowledge into dental hygiene practice.

Dental hygiene, as an emerging profession, needs to increase the number of intervention studies that identify improvements in oral health outcomes for clients. Historically, dental hygiene studies have typically been atheoretical, but the use of theoretical frameworks to guide these studies will increase their meaningfulness. Rogers' theory of diffusion of innovations has been used to study res...

Influence of Education on Oro-dental Knowledge among School Hygiene Instructors

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Recent progresses in preventive dentistry and their correct application in many developed coun-tries have remarkably decreased the rate of oro-dental diseases in children and teenagers, while the rate of oro-dental diseases is on the rise among the children in developing countries. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of educating school health care instructors b...