Bucodental Prevention in Adolescents: Educational Intervention. (Original)

Abstract

The buco-dental education constitutes one of the fundamental principles of the stomatology. Taking into account this aspect together with the insufficient knowledge about health and buccal hygiene in a great part of adolescents, the objective of this research is to raise through an educational intervention the level of knowledge about buccal health in adolescents, taking as field of action 8th grade students of the ESBEC "Antonio Betancourt Flores", belonging to the health area of the Joel Benítez Polyclinic of the municipality Cauto Cristo, Granma, Cuba. The research was constituted by 132 students representing the total enrollment of the center, of which 100 were part of the sample. A knowledge survey was applied elaborated starting from the survey of knowledge foreseen in the National Program of Integral Stomatological Attention of Cuba, which was validated by the piloting method, the one that threw the main identified learning necessities before the educational intervention related with: the tooth loss and its causes, the periodontal disease, the buccal hygiene and the frequency of visits to the stomatology’s. The favorable impact that was achieved in the students after applying the educational intervention strategy above the learning necessities and the level of knowledge about buccal health was demonstrated.