Outcomes included improved dental and oral health.
Initiative Description: Individual lessons and home tasks were provided to child and mother. Regularly provided dental health information was sent through short message service (SMS) texts twice a week aside from brochures as a method to increase dental health knowledge for mothers. Tooth brushing diaries were given so that children’s dental health behavior can be […]
Initiative Description: Posters containing information on dental trauma management were displayed in the school medical room, the common room used by staff, and on a notice board for 2 weeks in each school of the intervention group. Study Results: Increased dental first aid knowledge. Reference: Xiaozhong, W., Weiqing, C., Gans, K. M., Colby, S. M., […]
Initiative Description: Educational intervention for staff (teachers and nurses) on traumatic dental injuries (TDI) Study Results: Increased dental first aid knowledge. Reference: McIntyre, J.D. Lee, J.Y., Trope, M., Vann Jr, W.F. (2008) Effectiveness of dental trauma education for elementary school staff. Dental Traumatology; 24: 146–150; doi:10.1111/j.1600-9657.2008.00573.x Level of Evidence: Good
The FIT Program Initiative Description: The intervention group consisted of children attending public elementary schools implementing the FIT programme, including daily group handwashing with soap and toothbrushing with fluoride toothpaste, biannual school-based deworming; as well as the construction of group handwashing facilities. Study Results: The FIT programme significantly contributed to the prevention of dental caries […]
Initiative Description: The Fluoride Rinse Programme. Each child in the program rinses once every 2 weeks for 2 min during the school terms, equivalent to approximately 20 rinses per year. Study Results: Decreased decayed, missing and filled permanent teeth (where decayed teeth are those with dental caries into the dentine at the D3 threshold of […]
Initiative Description: The intervention had three elements: inclusion of health topics by teachers in regular classroom activities; health education delivered by the university team to reinforce key educational concepts; and daily in-school tooth brushing to develop healthy practices. Study Results: Improved daily toothbrushing habits, improved oral health (less ‘bad breath’, pain and absences for emergency […]
Initiative Description: Study has three experimental groups: group 1—daily handwashing with soap, daily brushing with fluoride toothpaste, biannual deworming with 400 mg albendazole (Essential Health Care Program [EHCP]); group 2—EHCP plus twice-a-year access to school-based Oral Urgent Treatment; group 3—EHCP plus weekly toothbrushing with high-fluoride concentration gel. Study Results: Reduction in dental caries and infections […]
Initiative Description: The first group of children (n = 115) received intervention via class work, solving a set of puzzles containing oral health messages, under supervision of their health counsellor. The second group (n = 114), intervention via parents, included an oral health education leaflet and a brushing diary for supervising the child’s tooth-brushing; the […]
“Miles of Smiles” Initiative Description: The “Miles of Smiles” clinic was assembled in 4 elementary schools using portable dental equipment. Dental hygiene students, supervised by a dental hygiene faculty member with an extended care permit, provided comprehensive preventive oral health care to unserved and underserved children. Dental students provided prophylaxis, radiographs, sealants, fluoride varnish, oral […]
Smile Grenada Initiative Description: The Smile Grenada intervention included: (1) classroom-based toothbrushing with fluoridated toothpaste, (2) fluoride varnish applied by trained dental students, teachers and local providers 3 times a year and (3) glass ionomer sealants placed on first permanent molars in children aged 6-8 years. Study Results: The number of decayed/demineralized surfaces declined across […]
