Abstract
When developing dental health programmes for pre-school children involvement of kindergarten teachers must be considered as important. It becomes critical to assess the teachers' dental health knowledge and attitudes, because they will exert influence on the children and thus on the programme outcome. The purpose of the present study was to assess possible changes in the dental visit habits and the dental health knowledge of Chinese kindergarten teachers prior to their involvement in a kindergarten-based daily toothbrushing programme and after they had received dental health education from dental health professionals. Self-completed questionnaires were collected from two groups of kindergarten teachers of which one group received dental health education, whereas the other did not receive any information. The teachers were similar in age, education, experience and responsibilities. No difference in the dental visit pattern was found between the groups, but statistically significantly higher dental health knowledge was shown in the group who had received dental health education. The increase in the dental health knowledge was attributed to the influence from the dental health education programme. The results are considered important for the further development of dental health education in the Chinese kindergartens.
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