Abstract
Dental and oral health education to primary school children is one of the efforts to improve the health of the teeth in
children for the preventive and promotive aspects. The choice of demonstration method on dental and oral health
education to support increasing understanding of the child, with doing practice the correct way to brush teeth. The
purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of oral health education to decrease plaque index at sixth grade
elementary school students. This research is a quasi-field experimental design with pre and posttest with control group.
Subjects consisted of all sixth grade students in the village Padang Loang, District Patampanua, Pinrang. With cluster
random sampling got 49 students. Data were analyzed using t-test. The results showed that one week after illumination
was applied value of plaque decline 2.269 at the treatment group. While the control group have increasing value of
plaque 0.485. The data indicate that there are effects of oral and dental health education demonstration method in
sixth grade elementary school students. It was concluded that the introduction of the importance of oral health as a
health maintenance efforts should be done from an early ages, it needs good cooperation between students, teachers
and parents.
Recommended Citation
Ilyas, Muhammad and Putri, Indah Nisita
(2012)
"Efek penyuluhan metode demonstrasi menyikat gigi terhadap penurunan indeks plak gigi pada murid sekolah dasar Effect of demonstration method counseling on brushing teeth to the decreasing of plaque value of elementary school students,"
Dentofasial: Vol. 11:
Iss.
2, Article 8.
DOI: 10.15562/jdmfs.v11i2.302
Available at:
https://scholarhub.unhas.ac.id/dentofasial/vol11/iss2/8
Pages
91-95
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©2016Muhammad Ilyas, Indah Nisita Putri
DOI
10.15562/jdmfs.v11i2.302