Reinforced Socialisation on Correct Way of Wearing Dental Braces on Students From Smpn 34 and Smpn 36 Medan Using Pocket Books
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- 10.2991/ahsr.k.210201.015How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Braces, Function of dental braces, Dental artisan
- Abstract
Dental braces installed in dental artisan and beauty salons are due to lack of awareness and knowledge of the community, especially school students about the indication of the use of dental braces and its consequences if used with improper purposes. One of the government’s efforts to improve dental health rates for school students is the holding of the oral healthcare program (UKGS) in school. However, the oral healthcare program has not been evenly implemented and it is rare to conduct outreach about the use of dental braces. The purpose of this study was to increase knowledge about the correct use of braces in students of SMPN 34 and SMPN 36 Medan. This research was a descriptive study using 118 student samples from SMPN 34 and SMPN 36 Medan. The results of this study showed that was 92.6% of male students and 84.4% of female students knew that braces function was to straighten teeth, 79.6% male students and 78.1% female students knew the purpose of installing braces was for health, and 92.6% of male students and 84.4% of female students have known that braces installation must be performed by an orthodontist. The conclusion of this study was the level of knowledge about the use of braces in students of SMPN 34 and SMPN 36 Medan was quite high.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - CONF AU - Muslim AU - Hilda Fitria Lubis AU - Mimi Marina Lubis AU - Siti Bahirrah PY - 2021 DA - 2021/02/01 TI - Reinforced Socialisation on Correct Way of Wearing Dental Braces on Students From Smpn 34 and Smpn 36 Medan Using Pocket Books BT - Proceedings of the 1st Aceh International Dental Meeting (AIDEM 2019), Oral Health International Conference On Art, Nature And Material Science Development 2019 PB - Atlantis Press SP - 69 EP - 72 SN - 2468-5739 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.210201.015 DO - 10.2991/ahsr.k.210201.015 ID - 2021 ER -