RT  - Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry
ID  - 10.17796/jcpd.31.4.e521842t26200h27
T1  - Evaluation of an Educational Program for Children with High Risk of Caries
A1  - Luciane Zanin
A1  - Marcelo C Meneghim
A1  - Andréa V. Assaf
A1  - Karine L. Cortellazzi
A1  - Antonio C. Pereira
K1  - Dental caries
K1  - preventive dentistry
K1  - dental education; dental plaque
YR  - 2007
SP  - 246
AB  - <p>The goal of this study was to evaluate a 15-month educational program designed to children. The sample consisted of 60 six-year olds, randomly assigned into control and experimental group. The control consisted of tooth brushing training, once a year. The experimental group received intensive individual tooth brushing training every three months and guidance on oral health. Initially, both groups were assessed using plaque, gingival, dmfs and DMF-S indexes every three months. In the control, no statistically significant difference was observed for plaque and gingival indexes. The experimental group showed a statistically significant reduction in mean values for two indexes. The caries indexes showed no statistically significant difference. The proposed educational program developed was efficient in reducing gingival and plaque indexes as well caries incidence</p>