Education Pour La santé Bocco-Dentaire Rôle Et Impact

Abstract

Dental caries repesent one of the most wide spread affections know to man, the best way to fight against it is by preventive measures. One of the most important of these measures is giving education on the importance of maitaining good dental-buccal hygiene based on the amelioration of knowledge . As such, the main objective of our work is based on animating educational seminars for pupils on oral health in the Wilaya of Setif. This study is done with a sample of 238 pupils aged from 6 to 12 years of whom 62% are in the private sector, 22% in the state’s school and 16% coming from the orphanage. The programme of this study is based on seances of information, motivation on oral hygiene screening and treatment during a period of 6 months from December 2017 to May 2018. One out-reach session has been every 2months by our group to do simple clinical examinations basing on the plaque index, state of the gums, teethwith caries and obturated teeth…, These results were later treated with SPSS program after every session. The results revealed that 38% of the pupils examined brush their teeth once a day. Nocturnal brushing was the most frequent with a percentage of 57.5% 87% of pupils consulted with a dentist only in case of necessity/ emergency 43 % of them had a plaque index of 2, un average cod index of 2,89. Comparisions between the different consultations revealed that for 21% of the pupils there was an amelioration of their state of oral hygiene and a degradation or stagnation for others. In conclusion, the role of doctors in dentistry is not only limited to treating patients but they also represent a strong link in the information chain of mobilisation, sensitization for pupils in which parents and teachers should be a part of to better fight this affliction.