Smart Audio Toothbrush With UV-filtered Toothpaste Dispenser to Improve Skills Brushing Teeth and Reducing Debris Index Blind Children

Abstract

Background: Blind children are children who tend to have low dental hygiene conditions. Children's behavior in maintaining dental hygiene influences the status of their dental hygiene. Because of their limitations, it is difficult for them to interpret what they should do. To overcome this, media is used as an educational tool, namely Ada's Toothbrush to improve teeth brushing skills and reduce the debris index of blind children. Objective: To produce a Smart Audio Toothbrush With Uv-filtered toothpaste dispenser (Ada's Toothbrush) model to improve teeth brushing skills and reduce debris index for visually impaired children. Method: Using Quantitative methods with pre- experiment research design (one group pretest and post- test design). With the sampling technique, the total sampling consisted of 30 blind children given intervention with the model Ada's Toothbrush for 10 days. Results: The results of expert validation of the Ada's Toothbrush model through validity testing using Aiken V show value hit > 0.8 is declared very valid and uses a reliability test Interclass Correlationb 0.915c , because (icc>0.80) it has high reliability. So Ada's Toothbrush model is feasible as an effort to improve the teeth-brushing skills of blind children. This model is proven effective and there was an increase in skill scores (p=0.000) of blind children on how to brush their teeth before and after the intervention, and effective in improving dental hygiene status by reducing the debris index (p=0.000) before and after the intervention. Conclusion: The development of Ada's Toothbrush model is effective in improving teeth brushing skills and reducing the debris index of blind children.