Educative intervention to elevate knowledge and modify habits on oral health in children with mentally retarded.
Abstract
An educative intervention study was carried out to elevate knowledge and to modify habits on oral health in 40 students with mentally retarded, between 7 and 11 years, grouped in 4 groups of the special school “Mariana Grajales” from Baraguá municipality, during the second semester of 2009-2010 course for which it was applied an interview that contained 5 questions related to oral hygiene, cariogenic diet, periodic examinations and it was included the index of oral hygiene and oral examination, that can be used to appreciate the knowledge they had and the level of oral hygiene before and 6 months after the application of the educative program “My mouth with a healthy and happy smile” that it counted on several sessions and applicable educative techniques to mental deficiency, supported with other means like prints, games and puppets. The conducted evaluation 6 months later revealed the effectiveness in the acquisition of habits and knowledge of oral health.Downloads
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Lina I. Torres Gárriz
Elsa López Otero
Especialista de 1er Grado en Estomatología General Integral. Máster en Urgencias Estomatológicas. Profesor Asistente.
Evelyn Sardiñas Montero
Sady Machado Ramos
Yenisel del Carmen Pérez Lecha
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