A survey conducted at the Faculdade de Saúde Pública da Universidade de São Paulo (FSP-USP) has demonstrated the effectiveness of the technique vestibule-lingual in brushing of the teeth to prevent tooth decay.
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 (SP). The survey was conducted by Professor Paulo Frazão and enlisted the support of Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (Fapesp).
according to information from the Agency USP, to develop the study, researchers compared the conventional brushing program practiced by schools, 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 four times per year. In the remaining school days, is held a daily brushing, indirectly supervised by professors
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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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information of the Ministry of Health indicate that about six million children are being benefited by the supervised dental brushing technique – that, in General, not as commonly applied. A significant enough effect can be expected if this kind of brushing is directed to children of five to eight years of age, since initial caries lesions occur during the first 36 months after the irruption of
molars.
