THE EMPOWERMENT OF LITTLE DENTISTS AND PARENTS AS THE EFFORT TO CHANGE THE TOOTH BRUSHING BEHAVIOUR OF SD 2 SAYAN, UBUD STUDENTS IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THEIR ORAL HYGIENE

Regina, Tedjasulaksana and Nahak, Maria Martina and Sumerti, Ni Nengah (2017) THE EMPOWERMENT OF LITTLE DENTISTS AND PARENTS AS THE EFFORT TO CHANGE THE TOOTH BRUSHING BEHAVIOUR OF SD 2 SAYAN, UBUD STUDENTS IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THEIR ORAL HYGIENE. [Dataset]

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Abstract

ooth disease nowadays that has high prevalence level among the children of primary school in Indonesia includes mouth and teeth disease as much as 74.4%, as the effect of the lack of oral hygiene care. the empowerment of the society has a purpose to improve the ability of the society to behave healthily, to solve the health problems independently, to be active in any health building, and to become the activator in realizing the development in health vision. The purpose of this research is to improve the oral hygiene of SD 2 Sayan Ubud students by carrying out the correct daily tooth brushing program led by the little dentists and parents guidance This experimental study with pre-post test without control group design was implemented using 68 students total population to identify the difference tooth brushing behavior and oral hygiene before and 21 days after tooth brushing program at school and at home. The datas were analyzed using Wilcoxon test. The result showed that the tooth brushinh behaviour and oral hygiene of students before and after tooth brushing program at school and at home were different significantly (p<0.05). The correlations between students’ tooth brushing behaviour and oral hygiene before and after correct tooth brushing program at school and at home was analyze using Spearman test showed different significantly (p<0.05). The conclusion is that little dentists and parents are able to change the tooth brushing behavior into the correct one and thus improve the oral hygiene of SD 2 Sayan, Ubud students.

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