At the Faculty of public health (FSP) of USP, research demonstrates the effectiveness of the technique vestibule-lingual in brushing of the teeth to prevent tooth decay in a supervised school programme with fluorinated toothpastes.
the study involved 284 children five years of age, with at least one permanent molar units in six public teaching kids of the city of São Vicente (Região Metropolitana da Baixada Santista, São Paulo). Conducted by professor Paulo Frazão, the search took support of Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (Fapesp) and was published in the journal BMC Oral Health
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the study compared a conventional program features similar to those programs that are conducted in most of the units surveyed, with a modified program. The conventional programme is composed of oral health education activity (usually a lecture) and disclosure activity plaque followed by brushing with toothpaste helper fluorinated overseen by a dental health held four times a year. In the remaining school days, daily brushing, indirectly supervised by teachers, is held at the patio of the school
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in the modified program, in addition to these activities, the helper of oral health was able to apply in permanent molars erupt into the technique of brushing vestibule-lingual using the participant’s brush, five times a year. The helper, positioned beside or behind the head of the participant, checks whether the permanent molars (located behind the last milk teeth) already erupted. If so, aligns the brush with the molar surface, which is lower than the other teeth, and performs brushing. In the modified program enrolled 21.6 per thousand children the lesions less than in conventional
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Between the boys, whose risk of dental caries was higher compared to the girls, the incidence was 50% lower in the group that received this technique of brushing. It was concluded that the program of supervised dental brushing was modified effective in boys, suggesting substantial decrease in dental treatment needs in school curricula more vulnerable to decay, so it can prevent caries lesions more than how it is done currently.
