The application of dental health education to managers and foster children of the Seruni and Rumah Bintang Foundation in Bandung

Abstract

Background: Seruni and RumahBintang Foundation are 2 foundations in Bandung that are engaged in the social sector by fostering foster children in the category of orphans and children from disadvantaged families.

Associated with oral and dental health, many studies prove that the dental and oral health status of foster and street children which includes oral hygiene status, caries index and tooth supporting tissue index are at an unfavorable level. JKG Polytechnic lecturers and students of the Bandung Ministry of Health plan to conduct service activities in the form of dental and oral health care for foster children under the guidance of the two foundations with a focus on dental and oral health education.

 Methods:The methods of implementation include: providing dental and oral health training for managers of the two foundations, providing assistance when trained managers conduct toothbrush coaching and counseling for elementary and preschool children who are trained students, and dental health checks of the target students who are divided into 2 semesters and runs from June to October 2017.

In the first semester, the communityservice program was completed in the form of consecutive dental health training for 7 and 5 managers of the Seruni and RumahBintang foundations, caries index and oral hygiene index examinations in 18 and 13 elementary / preschool students under the guidance of the foundation.

In the second semester IbM activities included the dissemination of results of dental health checks of students trained to trained managers, refreshing training materials to managers as a form of strengthening, mentoring in developing dental health education programs and joint toothbrushes in both foundations.

Results: Managers were quite good in delivering educational and coaching skills for brushing teeth to students.