Oral hygiene indirect instruction and periodic reinforcements: effects on index plaque in schoolchildren

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the indirect instruction and the influence of the periodic reinforcement on the plaque index in schoolchildren. Forty schoolchildren aged from 7 to 9 years old were selected from a public school. After determining the initial O'Leary Plaque Index all schoolchildren were submitted to a program for oral hygiene through indirect instruction -"The Smiling Robot". The schoolchildren were divided into 2 groups: with and without motivation reinforcement. The index plaque exam was performed in both groups after 30, 60 and 90 days of the educational program. Comparing the groups, the plaque index decreasing could be observed in the group with reinforcement with statistically significant difference. For the group with reinforcement, statistically significant difference among the evaluations was found. For the group without reinforcement, significant decrease in the plaque index was found after 30 days when compared to the first, third and fourth evaluations. The indirect instruction with "The Smiling Robot "promoted a positive initial impact on the decrease of plaque index in the schoolchildren. The periodic reinforcements showed more suitable results and significant reduction of the plaque index in the course of the evaluations.

The implementation of a tobacco dependence education curriculum in a Swiss Dental Hygiene School - an 8-year review

OBJECTIVE The aim of our investigation was to review the implementation of a comprehensive tobacco dependence education (TDE) curriculum at the Medi School of Dental Hygiene (MSDH), Bern, Switzerland, 2001-2008. METHODS In 2001, new forms to record patients' tobacco use history and willingness to quit were created for all the MSDH patients. In 2002, a new theoretically based tobacco dependence treatment protocol was implemented into the MSDH curriculum. Students received instruction on how to provide brief tobacco use dependence interventions as well as maintain detailed records of patient tobacco use and cessation interventions for every smoker at all dental hygiene visits. RESULTS In 2002, 17 lecture hours were added to the following subjects: pathology, periodontology, preventive dentistry, pharmacology and psychology. During the same time period, 2213 patients (56.9% women) have visited the MSDH. Smoking status was recorded in 85.7% of all the patients (30.2% smokers). Brief tobacco use interventions were recorded in 36.8% of all smokers while 7.6% of these have reported to quit smoking. CONCLUSIONS Overall, the new TDE curriculum was successfully implemented and accepted by the MSDH faculty. Applications in the clinical practice, however, may still be improved to better identify smokers and increase initial and follow-up interventions potentially leading to higher quit rates.

An Emerging Technology: To Model Patient Education for the Dental Hygiene Student

Introduction: Could Livestream Video, an emerging audiovisual media, be used more effectively than the traditional demonstration method of teaching or modeling dental hygiene students on how to provide chairside patient education? [See PDF for complete abstract]

Schechita und Bedikah : (rituelle Schlachtung u. innere Untersuchung) : auf Grund alttestamententlichen, talmudischen u. neuhebräischen Quellenstudiums im Lichte d. modernen Hygiene u. Fleischbeschauungsgesetzgebung

von Bruno Lauff. Aus dem Institut für Nahrungsmittelkunde der Tierärztlichen Hochschule in Berlin

Bericht über die Gruppe "Hygiene der Juden" in der Internationalen Hygiene-Ausstellung Dresden 1911

von Max Grunwald

Die Hygiene der Juden : im Anschluss an die Internat. Hygiene-Ausstellung Dresden 1911

hrsg. von Max Grunwald

Einiges zur jüdischen Fleischhygiene : Vortrag, geh. auf d. Internat. Hygiene-Ausstellung u. Dresden

von [Josef] Kallner

Die Medizin und Hygiene der Juden in Elsass-Lothringen : Vortrag

von M. Ginsburger

Die Hygiene in Bibel und Talmud : ein Vortr.

von S. Steinthal

Die Sozialhygiene der Juden und des altorientalischen Völkerkreises (Einführung in das Studium der sozialen Hygiene)

von Alfred Nossig

Das Schächten im Vergleich mit anderen Schlachtmethoden : vom Standpunkte d. Humanität u. Hygiene beleuchtet

von J. A. Dembo