Educational comic: EKSIS CERMIN SI IMUT, as efforts to improve dental and oral health knowledge in Elementary School 12 Kapopposang Island

Ansyari Muis,Febriansyah M Ashar,Irene E Rieuwpassa,Erwin Gunawan,Pharadiba Pharadiba

doi:10.15562/jdmfs.v0i0.769

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Abstract

Objective:Â Dental and oral health knowledge is one of the efforts to prevent and cope with dental and oral health problems. The target of this student creativity program is elementary school students in Kapopposang island from third grade to fifth grade.Material and Methods:Â The method of implementation of this activity is the presentation of data, preparation of implementation, implementation of activities, evaluation by using pretest-postest and preparing reports.Results:Â The average value data pre-test and post-test were analyzed using paired t test with SPSS 24 for Windows. The data shows significant results value p (0.000)< 0.05.Conclusion:Â The conclusion of this activity can be obtained that the Comic Eksis Cermin Si Imut is effective in increasing students knowledge of class III, IV, and V SDN 12 Kapopposang Island.

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Dental health is often regarded as commonplace for some people
Dental health problems such as cavities and caries are still widely complained by both adults and children.[1]
Results of Basic Health Research (Riskesdas) 2007, dental caries suffered by 72.1% of the population of Indonesia and in the last 12 months as many as 23.4% of the Indonesian population complained of problems in the teeth and mouth

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Dental health is often regarded as commonplace for some people. Dental health problems such as cavities and caries are still widely complained by both adults and children.[1]. Only 29.6% sought help and received treatment from health personnel This indicates that the still low level of awareness and the level of community utilization of dental services. Still, according to the research, 91.1% of Indonesians aged over 10 years, despite brushing their teeth every day, only 7.3% have brushed their teeth correctly, ie morning after breakfast and night before bed. This suggests that most children still do not have the correct behavior in terms of brushing teeth at the right time so as to impact poor oral health.[2,3]

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