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Caring for Vulnerable Children's Dental Health

2015/6/18 1:03:21 | by Administor | Administration Office

From Jun. 15th to 16th,  2015, a team consisting of 18 dental experts led by professor Zhou Nuo,  Vice President of GXMU Dean of College of Stomatology, Chen  Guotang, Associate Consultant of Bureau of Disease Prevention  Control, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Health Family Planning  Commission leaders medical staff from local Public Health  Bureau, Disease Control Center medical institutions came to Zhong  Xin Primary School, Hua Tong Twon, Jingxi County for carrying out 4th  phase of Constraction Operation Project on Demonstration Base of  Comprehensive Prevention Treatment of Dental Disease in Ethnic  Areas. They carried out the promotion of dental health including dental  check-up, health education questionnaire survey, visited local  Public Health Bureau as to lay scientfic basis for futher formulation  adjustment of working strategies.


Since the project was first carried out in Jingxi County in Aug. 2011, it has come to the 4th  phase after completing pre-survey, baseline survey, implementation of  comprehensive dental intervention measures preliminary project  appraisal. Under the leadership support of government departments of  all levels, with the effort made by Dean Zhou Nuo Deputy Dean  Tao Renchuan in the past 3 years, Comprehensive  Prevention Treatment of Dental Disease mode suitable for Guangxi  ethnic areas initially took shape. That is the integrated partnership of  administrative departments of health education, Disease Prevention  Control Center, institutions of higher learning, stomatological  hospitals, dental clinics, enterprises media with the government as  the leader a working system of concrete measures implementation of  project of detal disease prevention control to administrative areas  of all levels with the current existing network system as the mainlin.  In the meantime, comprehensive prevention control mode was adopted  to promote the application of comprehensive prevention control of  dental diseases measures by way of standardized training, dental health  policy making education in various forms, achiving the goal of  preventing controling dental diseases.

So  far, there are 1500 medical works having received standardized training  in Jingxi demonstration area 60% dentists who have mastered the  standardized technique in comprehensive prevention control mode of  dental diseases. The popularity rate of dental health, accuracy rate of  brushing teeth completion rate of public dental health archives all  exceed 60%. 70% primary students brush their teeth twice a day with the  usage rate of toothpaste with fluoride being 70%. Preliminary data show  that children’s caries prevalence rate in Jingxi County is lower than  that of the control group in Debao County. After years’ endeavor,  students’ dental hygiene has been largely improved children’s caries  prevalence rate has decreased significantly.

The  expert team not only checked up students’ health condition gave  lectures on oral health, but also donated 1104 toothpastes, 1100  brochure on dental health, 1800 book marks, 112 CDs so on.