7,311 SCHOOL CANARIOS HAVE PARTICIPATED IN THE PROGRAM 'CEPILLÍN CEPILLÁN' - is organized by the Directorate General of Public Health Service Canario of Health in collaboration with the General Directorate of Programs of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports.
A total of 7,311 schoolchildren canaries have participated in a program of School Health Education to improve oral health called 'Cepillín Cepillán', launched by the Directorate General of Public Health Service Canario of Health in collaboration with the General Directorate of Programs the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports during the year 2005-2006.
In the year 2005-2006 have been involved 7,311 students in 99 schools: 32 on the island of Tenerife, 25 in Gran Canaria and 42 in Fuerteventura. It offered a total of 62 lectures to parents and 9 courses for teachers, as one of the priority objectives is to promote the active participation of the parties involved in the process salud: family, students and teachers. The goal of the program is to improve the oral health of the students who are studying early childhood education (3-6 years) to prevent the occurrence of disease as more frequent oral cavities, gingivitis and fluorosis, as well as accidents mouth and harmful habits.
To that end, it is essential to promote the purchase of food and hygiene habits healthy from the point of view oral, learning how to brush your teeth right way, and restrict the intake of sugars especially between meals. This program also seeks to correct habits harmful to the oral health of children, such as the consumption of snuff in his presence, the use of pacifiers, taking bottles of milk before bedtime, the daily consumption of sweets, low fruit and vegetable intake, frequent consumption of soft drinks, thumb sucking, or not go to the dental consultation.
WORK - The Program 'Cepillín Cepillán' consists of activities such as a survey of parents on health habits and food, educational materials to color, cut and paste, games, drama 'The Tooth Manuela' starring puppets, and songs and records weekly breakfast and hygiene habits at home, among others. It seeks to assess the evolution of attitudes and procedures from the point of view through dental school through self-assessment sheets, surveys, put together, etc.; assessment of the assistance of parents to the talks; valuation of assistance teachers in training courses for teachers; record of compliance objectives and activities by class and school Valuation of oral health habits of schoolchildren in a sample of parents of the schools involved in the program at the beginning and end of the program when students are in the first years of elementary education (and with three years of the program); assessment of the oral health of a sample of students from schools involved in the program when students are in the first years of elementary education (and with three years) and comparison with the oral health of schoolchildren in the same way that have not participated in the program, and the effects of program development will also serve to evaluate it.
Following the completion of the program in the cuso 2005-2006, it is noted that the objectives achieved, have been distinguish foods harmful to the teeth of those who are healthy; know you can take some sweet things, and know how it is being correct cleaning of the mouth. As for the proposed activities, the most performed were drawing or cutting and pasting healthy food for a feast child. Coloring healthy foods for the teeth. Coloring brushes that are used for dental hygiene and delete those that do not work.
Activities to do at home by parents and objectives related thereto are made less, so there is an urgent need for more families to participate. Moreover, the activity of daily intake register as the registration weekly breakfast require more time to evaluate teacher performance and families to complete, so in the edition of 2006 it was decided to eliminate them. Other activities that have been conducted recently, as some cutting and pasting, have been included in the new edition but recomendándolas only 3 º of Early Childhood Education (5 years old).
To assess the oral health habits of schoolchildren aged between 3 and 6 took a sample of 5 schools in the municipality of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. We used the questionnaire included in the booklet of educational activities presented 14 questions and called on parents attending the lectures on oral health council be completed before initiating the talk. The findings emerged that completed the survey 50 parents. The average attendance for college was 12. Of the total number of parents attending the largest number of those whose children were in the first course (3 years old). The proportion of assistance based on the actual number of parents with children in Early Childhood Education was 13 percent.
Most respondents replied that their children are cepillaban teeth, and the after dinner, the most frequent, with a 46 per ciento.Hay a large percentage of children who are planed alone without the help of a adult (45 percent), so that the family is not even aware that it is essential that an adult must physically help the child between 3 and 6 years to brushing and not just monitor it. Most parents affirmed that their children only took candy and soft drinks on specific occasions, but there is a 10 percent consuming sweets every day, a percentage that should be lowered to try to reduce one of the most important risk factors of dental caries.
Only 34 percent of parents say that their children take daily 2 or 3 pieces of fruit and 2 or 3 pieces of vegetables, which is essential for the overall health of the child / a. The 19 percent get milk or other drinks in a bottle to sleep. These figures should be trying to reduce them because of the implication of this habit in the production of cavities and dental malocclusions.
In contrast, the percentage of school age use this sucks, or they lick his finger to sleep habits that when too much on the prolonged time can also cause malocclusions, is very low (5 per cent and 2 per cent respectively). 20 percent admit that their children have difficulty breathing or by the nose, another factor that extends over time also can cause dental malocclusions. A 69 percent have never gone to the dental consultation. This reflects how the family generally does not give importance to the dentition of milk and hoped to bring the child to the dental when you run into a problem or when they start to leave the teeth definitive.
Most parents (95 percent) use toothpaste on the brush their children and much 60 percent placed in the brush the correct amount (0.5 cm paste), but there is still a 18 percent put 2 cm, which should be avoided to prevent stains of fluorosis excess paste at these ages. The contents of the conversations from parents can help change these harmful habits.
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For a long work abroad. Now is the time to also do something for here. The authorities have to respond to the needs of the population.
Gerofil
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