Implementation of Dental Health Education to The Deaf Students of SLB-B Kiaracondong and Muhammadiyah ukagalih Bandung

Abstract

Background : Lack of knowledge of oral and dental health for the deaf, resulting in lower dental and oral hygiene values compared to normal students. This leads to their susceptibility to dental and mouth diseases. An effort to improve oral hygiene of hearing impaired children is providing dental health training to teachers.

Methods : The purpose of this activity is to improve the knowledge and skills of deaf children about oral and dental health through their teachers. Targets of training are 8 teachers and 38 children with hearing impairement. This activity contains of training, producing 5 pieces of interactive CDs with thw theme of Dental Health Education, audio sounding interactive test that has been held on students in the two SLB-B and making of Dental Health Modul which is then translate in sign language for deaf children.

Results : The result of the training in both SLB-B showed an increase in knowledge aspect in SLB-B Muhammadiyah from 57,5% before training to 70,5% after training, and from 45,8% to 70.8% in SLB-B Sukapura. The result of an interactive CD test for students showed that the highest score in SLB-B Muhammadiyah was 73,3%.

Conclusion : The brushing teeth skill in students with hearing impairment in both school after being given education by the teachers showed the children become skilled in brushingteeth.