Wednesday 13 August 2008

110) Shopping `s and Oral Health

CURITIBA (Brazil) - Program for oral health of Provopar brings together about 350 children, about 350 children participated in a further stage of the Parana Child Smile ", earlier this month in the New Shopping Batel, in Curitiba. The programme of oral health promoted by the Social Action Provopar met children from 4 to 14 years, Socio-Educational Center of Hope, the School Annette Macedo Maternal and Child House of Francis of Assisi, all of Curitiba, as well as students of the School Professor Ceci Sueli da Silva Contador, the Garden Daybreak, in the city of Araucária.
The children passed by the circuit of lectures on the importance of oral health, "what are and what are the teeth, to serve", which the major diseases of the mouth (of caries and gum diseases), and the correct technique of brushing the teeth and the use of dental floss. Afterwards, the children attended the mouth and play the vampires of Parana, the Theater Paulo Autran. Each school received a CD containing all information on past tours, as well as drawings, games and songs of play. Already the students received the kit with Gibi "Bocão", pulp, brush and dental floss, and "tooth of vampire."
The success of the initiative was that both the direction of the shopping asked to place new steps of the programme, during the school holidays. "It was extremely important to portray a playful information of this kind, because immediately been successful among students, not only with respect to the use of objects that are part of the kit, but also with the use of songs sung in the theatre", he said Suzana Blanco, Director of the New Shopping Batel.
Parana Child Smile - The dental program designed by Julio Cesar Ferreira de Sá was launched in an experimental chairman of the Provopar, Lucia Arruda, last year in Campo Largo, in the metropolitan region of Curitiba. The success of the initiative was both what new steps were undertaken with the participation of thousands of children. They were so far the steps of Four Bars, Santo Antonio da Platinum, Japira, Siqueira Campos, Guaratuba, Pontal do Paraná and Shopping New Batel (Curitiba).
The main objective of the programme is the prevention of oral health for children from 6 to 12 years, through lectures, brushing of teeth, using dental floss, as well as lectures and presentation of the play.
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This news serves as an example of work that can be carried out (eg possible programmes of oral health) when there is close cooperation between entities of social support and major commercial areas. Everyone gets to win, especially those who most need.
Gerofil

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