Screening Study of School Chil-dren Oral Hygiene Level

Overview

The Screening study of the school children oral hygiene level and the question-naire study are part of a complex study. The aim of this study was to map out the situation onthe field of children’s and youth oral health care, with a special contrast on prevention. Thestudy was carried out in the years 1998 and 1999. Both parts of the study were incorporatedinto health education hours. Private dentists, so called „school dentists“ provide basic dentalcare for Basic school children. The dmf and (DMF) values for deciduous and permanent teethweren’t higher than the values found out in the monitoring of the year 1994 and 1997respectively. From the questionnaire survey we found out that, in some oral hygiene aspects,Basic school children are better informed than High school students. Furthermore we foundout that girls have better approach towards their oral hygiene than boys.

Key words:
questionnaire survey – dmf (DMF) – systematic care – oral health – prevention