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Austria |
The partnership will help to support an initiative organised by the country’s task force for preventative dentistry, in collaboration with the Lower Austrian Medical Board and Health Forum. This initiative, covering the entire state of Lower Austria, will involve dental teams visiting kindergartens and elementary schools twice yearly to educate children on how best to prevent dental caries. Children will be taught about nutrition and correct brushing techniques, and will be encouraged to visit their dentists for check-ups on a regular basis. |
Bangladesh |
The programme in Bangladesh is based on oral health check-up in primary schools, cleft lip reconstruction camps, oral health cancer screening camps and continuing education. The purpose is to undertake epidemiological studies of all common oral problems such as dental caries, periodontitis, pulp diseases, oral cancer, facial cleft etc. throughout the country. These surveys will explore various oral and dental diseases and limited curative support can be done mainly in rural areas particularly in primary schools, colleges and district level hospitals. |
Belgium |
The partnership currently supports two national projects. The first of these
(the project of Société de Médecine Dentaire) is focused on emphasising to school children the importance of a daily tooth brushing routine for good oral health. Booklets and other promotional materials are issued to school nurses and pupils, and competitions help to incentivise improvement.
Additionally, a second initiative, leaded by Chambres Syndicales Dentaires involving training local ‘oral health leaders’, will work to increase awareness of oral care techniques within communities.
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Brazil |
Working to improve oral health in the Brazilian city of Pernambuco, the Brazilian Odontological Association’s two-phase programme will begin by educating children in 12 of the city’s schools on the effects of dental disease and the importance of good oral hygiene. Illustrated brochures and other official literature will be distributed to both pupils and teachers, providing information on how to prevent dental caries, details on treatment, nutritional advice and other relevant themes. The second phase of the project centres on the sponsorship of three fully equipped, urban area dental offices, which, when completed, will have the capacity to reach 15,000 people. |
Cambodia |
The launch of an oral health preventative programme for primary school children in Phnom Penh City was made possible thanks to partnership funding. Featured activities include training hygiene teachers and educating children on important oral health issues, such as the need to brush daily with a fluoridated toothpaste and weekly mouth rinsing. |
Chile
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As the first of two national programmes to receive funding from the partnership, the Odontological Society of Chile (Sociedad Odontologica de Chile) is launching a three-year preventative development and education programme, targeting specifically three of the country’s most socially deprived ethnic communities. The programme consists of educational talks and training to support oral health promotion and prevention activities. These communities will also be provided with resources/elements that contribute to the development of oral health.
The second national project by the Colegio de Cirujano Dentistas de Chile focuses on oral health education and encouraging self-care for children aged 9-14 and elderly adults not covered by the health system. Partnership funding will be used in a variety of ways, including training dental teams, screening programmes, tooth brushing workshops and the promotion of good nutritional habits. |
China |
Comparative analysis of the acceptability of oral health education to children in the city and rural areas will be conducted. Students, grades first through third, who have never received oral health education, will receive monthly oral health classes and be examined every six months. A lecture and performance on oral health will be held every year. In the third year of the research, the children will be interviewed and their cognition on oral health care will be evaluated by questionnaires. |
Cote d’Ivoire |
The partnership has helped to create a primary healthcare project for the deprived suburbs of Abidjan, reaching 3,000 children aged 3-10, and providing screening for the early detection of oral diseases. |
Croatia |
The Croatian Dental Chamber has developed an educational programme called ‘Smile through Life’. Focusing on secondary school students aged 14 to 18, the programme’s objectives are to raise awareness of the importance of personal oral hygiene, and encourage regular dental check-ups. Dentists will visit schools and colleges across the country, and their educational messages will be reinforced through promotional materials, posters and a website. Students will be encouraged to improve their levels of oral health by results-oriented competitions supported by the Ministry of Health and Tourism Board. |
Czech Republic |
Thanks to support from the partnership, the Czech Dental Chamber’s ‘Dental Pass’ scheme will continue to expand. This project is a preventative exercise intended to help educate younger school children on the importance of oral care, and improve relationships between parents, children and their dentist. The Czech Dental Chamber plans to issue 330,000 new dental passes by the end of 2006. |
Egypt |
This project will help update the 1991 national survey for epidemiological evaluation of oral and dental diseases amongst the Egyptian population. The data obtained will be used for evaluating results of the programme during 1991-2005; develop epidemiological programs concentrating on the survey data results of oral and dental diseases. Financial assistance is also to be provided by the government. |
Finland |
The aim pf the project in Finland is to publish a book for teachers detailing how to effectively teach oral health promotion in schools. The key element in the manual is to give examples how to promote pupils own activity in learning the various aspects in the health of their own teeth and oral health in general. |
Germany |
Campaigns on professional and public levels are planned in order to mediate tobacco-related oral disease aspects and to develop the promotion of oral health in the field of tobacco and oral health. Dental professionals will be informed by a scientific brochure to integrate instructions on the cessation of smoking. The training of oral health professionals in smoking cessation advice is important because dentists are the most frequently consulted specialists in Germany.
On the other hand the patients will be informed by a brochure about the risks of tobacco use on oral health. This publication will close the lack of information and may help to reduce the failure of therapeutic dental treatments. By informing both – professionals and the public - essential contribution to dentistry and oral care is given in order to prevent systemic diseases and disabilities. At the same time, risks and interactions of systemic and oral diseases can be reduced.
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Ghana |
Partnership funding was instrumental in launching a three-year oral care educational programme to help train teachers and community nurses throughout Ghana. This training will ultimately equip children and communities with the knowledge and skills necessary to improve and maintain good oral health. |
Greece |
With funding from the partnership now in place, The Hellenic Dental Association is researching and surveying the prevalence of early childhood caries in two to five year olds, and looking at its association with various determinants of caries development. More specifically, the research will investigate the association between early childhood caries and levels of mutans streptococcal infection. Children will be examined in a mobile dental clinic and a follow-up questionnaire will investigate caries development for both child and the parent.
Additionally, the Stomatological Society of Greece is developing a summer camp oral health programme. Targeting children aged seven to 12, this demonstrative, educational programme is intended to motivate children to adopt and maintain good oral hygiene habits. A mobile dental unit will also allow children to receive a basic dental examination during their visit. This programme is expected to reach between 2,000-2,500 school children annually. |
Hungary |
The Hungarian Dental Association has employed oral health instructors to hold training sessions at kindergartens across the country for children, parents and teachers. Parents and children will also be screened for common dental diseases, and the results will form the basis of a three-year population study to monitor oral health trends. |
India |
The purpose of the project is to increase the awareness of good oral care habits and to ensure good oral health amongst school children by providing free consultation. Two hundred schools will be contacted and approximately 750 children per school, ages 6-12, will be reached. |
Indonesia |
Unilever has already delivered a number of successful oral health schemes in Indonesia, including a schools programme, which reached 15 cities, 8,000 schools and almost 3 million students all over Indonesia. The partnership will help build on these foundations through the Dental Health Educational Project. With the cooperation of the Ministry of Health, and local community healthcare centre, the Indonesian Dental Association will train a staff member at 15 different schools to become a local oral health ‘ambassador’. These individuals will initiate local educational programmes for children, parents and teachers, and they will be provided with the skills and materials to solve basic oral health problems. They will also be able to assist dental health professionals with future preventative or promotional activities. |
Iraq |
The country’s National Dental Association is developing an educational oral health programme to encourage the use of fluoridated toothpaste and improve their citizens’ knowledge of, and attitude towards, basic oral care practices. |
Italy |
The Associazione Nazionale Dentisti Italiani will establish a scholarship for research projects in oral prevention epidemiology.
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Jordan |
Partnership resources have been used to develop a preventative programme to improve existing dental education activities at schools across the country. Dentists will visit schools on a routine bases, demonstrating oral care best practice for children, briefing teachers on key oral health issues and preventative measures, and distributing toothpaste and toothbrushes. |
Kazakhstan |
Funding provided by the partnership will help fund an ongoing school education programme developed by the Kazakhstan Dental Association. This programme will see the ‘Pepsodent Dental Bus’ visiting schools across the country, where dental experts can provide oral care advice and dispense essential products such as toothpaste and toothbrushes. The Dental Bus programme is expected to engage around 50,000 children over the next three years. Concurrently, dental experts will use data gathered from check-ups conducted on the Dental Bus to study the incidence of tooth caries and other dental diseases |
Kenya |
The Kenyan Dental Association has been provided with the resources to improve oral health for needy children throughout Kenya via oral health education, nutrition education, counselling and free dental treatment in the most urgent cases. This is a one-year programme, and the data gathered from dental assessments will be recorded to improve oral health amongst future generations of Kenyan children. The project is being run in partnership with the Mama Ngina Children’s Home.
Speech made by Hon. (Dr.) Enoch W. Kibunguchy during the project launch |
Nigeria |
In 2005, the Nigerian Dental Association, assisted by the partnership, launched an oral health awareness and assessment programme, targeting local communities across six of the country’s federal states. About 240 oral health professionals have participated so far, recruited from hospitals, the private sector and the armed forces, including dental nurses and dental students.
Mobile dental teams were trained, equipped and tasked with educating families on the importance of oral hygiene and improving the level and availability of oral hygiene care facilities and products. In addition to these preventative measures, the communities visited are also screened for oral diseases. In the first three months of the programme, over 7,000 people were given oral examinations, dental advice and referrals where necessary. |
Pakistan |
Improving access to oral health care in rural Pakistan amongst children. School children will be given lessons on oral health and diseases and encouraged to promote oral health in the school through peer led activities. They will also be trained in basic oral examination and encouraged to examine, screen and refer each other for appropriate dental treatment. Dental surgeons and volunteer students and teachers with fully functional portable dental unit, instruments and material will be stationed at each school for a period of two weeks to provide education and treatment for approximately 800 students in each school. |
Philippines |
In the week of a National Oral Health Survey, which reported that 97.1% of six year old children suffer from dental caries and 84.7% from dental infections, the Pediatric Philippine Dental Association instigated a project to ‘empower children to healthy habits’. This included the incorporation of oral health into the school curriculum, the installation of spit trays and toothbrush holders in all daycare centres and examination of the oral health status in children.
Programme Newsletter (01/2008) |
Poland |
Poland’s National Dental Associations have used funding from the partnership to implement a three-year pre-natal dental education programme for the improvement of infant oral health. This programme will be incorporated into existing childbirth and parenting classes at 178 specialist centres across the country. Parents-to-be are provided with dietary instructions, and taught how to maintain both their own oral health and that of their infants. The programme also provides parents with oral hygiene product samples and information on the effects of common dental diseases and how to avoid them. |
Saudi Arabia |
The main purpose of the project in Saudi Arabia is to improve children’s oral health through:
- Controlling (treating) their cavitated carious lesions using Atrumatic Restorative Treatment (ART) technique, and protecting their susceptible sound teeth from future dental caries using Pit and Fissure Sealants (PFS).
- Teaching children the proper technique of tooth brushing and flossing through live demonstration in their schools with free sample of tooth brushes and pastes for each child.
- Educating children’s parents and teachers (through well-designed educational materials) about the necessity of regular oral hygiene practices, and the importance of the balanced healthy diet (which must contain fresh milk) in improving children’s oral health.
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Spain |
The partnership is providing funding for a three-year programme to help dentists quit smoking. Free training courses and counselling will be offered to the entire membership of the National Dental Association. |
Sri Lanka |
The Sri Lankan Dental Association is to conduct oral health education and treatment programmes in selected rural towns across the country, where access to dental treatment is often limited. |
Sudan |
The Sudanese Dental Union has secured sufficient funding from the partnership to initiate an oral health promotion programme for internally displaced school children in the capital, Khartoum. Dentists will visit 244 schools and institutions across the city, educating children on the importance of brushing their teeth with fluoridated toothpaste, dispensing oral care products and training teachers on how to run oral health lessons for their pupils. These dental visits will also involve screening and treating the children for cavities using ART (Atraumatic Restorative Treatment), and providing emergency treatment for other dental problems. |
Switzerland |
The partnership is helping to develop training aids and provide support for The Société Suissse d’Odonto-Stomatolgie’s national programme of ‘Oral Health Care Assistants in Schools’. The project will provide the necessary tools and teaching aids, including educational CD-ROMs, to enable health care assistants to inform school children aged 5-15 on how to maintain good oral health and avoid dental disease. |
Thailand |
The partnership has enabled the Dental Association of Thailand to progress its work in improving oral health-related quality of life amongst the elderly. The Association is conducting a nationwide assessment of tooth loss among the elderly and examining how this affects the quality of life. The project will investigate the causes of tooth loss and implement oral health promotional programmes to help improve oral care habits. Additionally, the project will work to identify and treat those individuals with limited access to dental care, whose quality of life is greatly affected by poor oral health. |
Tunisia |
The anti-tobacco project in Tunisia is intended to reduce the consumption of tobacco use of Tunisian dentists.
The objective of the first phase is to facilitate through the analysis of situation, the implementation and development of the first specific objective referred in purpose i.e. the development of common instrument guidelines for implement of a Smoke-Free Dental Office Environment.
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Vietnam |
The partnership has been instrumental in establishing a school-based oral care programme in Backan province, North Vietnam. This project provides oral care for children at two of the province’s largest primary schools, through a combination of oral health education and the establishment of free dental clinics on site.
These clinics, staffed by dentists under the supervision of the Vietnam Odonto-Stomatology Association, are equipped to screen pupils and provide treatment for common dental diseases such as dental caries, gingivitis and scaling calculus. Additionally, the partnership will work to provide dental education for women in rural areas, and further funding will be used to build more international standard clinics around the country, helping to train the next generation of dental care professionals.
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