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Teachers Oral Guide Your Health, Oral Health and Dentistry As guardians of oral

Teachers Oral Guide Your Health, Oral Health and Dentistry As guardians of oral healthcare in the nation we are truly concerned about overall health – more significantly in oral health and prevention of oral diseases among people. Good oral health starts with early preventive care and good habits. It is important for children's and adolescents overall health and well being. As you interact with students and parents, you can now play an effective role in influencing their lives on oral healthcare. We are pleased to offer you free of cost, this comprehensive and instructive Oral Health Guide that will help you teach and promote healthy choices related to oral and body health. We trust you will find it useful. Published for the benefit of a healthy society. Indian Dental Association About US Established in 1946, the Indian Dental Association (IDA) is a premier organization of dental professionals in the country committed to dental excellence. Its main focus is on pioneering prevention and interception of dental diseases rather than cure. It is the common platform for interaction and exchange of information and skill, aimed at professional advancement of its members. By its dedicated approach to promoting dental education and research, IDA has been championing the cause of oral healthcare and hygiene in the country. The Oral Health Programs conducted at Schools for students, teachers and parents is an endeavor by the IDA to inculcate good oral hygiene habits at a young age to have healthy teeth that last a lifetime! According to the Indian Dental Association, dental diseases, tooth decay (dental caries) and gum disease are the most common among children. However, the good news is that dental diseases are preventable! Studies and research confirm the importance of children practicing good oral hygiene and care right from their early years. It is said, a child is not truly healthy without good oral health. Healthy Smiles Happy Smiles, one of our innovative School Oral Health programs launched in 1991, focuses on caries prevention. It was developed in response to the feedback and requests received from Teachers for in-depth information on children’s oral health. It provides the basic need-to-know oral health information that is important for children. The simple format and informative sections will assist you in teaching the topic and working with parents. You’ll find answers to common questions such as - when a child should first go to the dentist, why baby teeth are important, and what to do in a dental emergency. It helps teachers promote good oral health to students, building habits that will last a lifetime. It boosts self-esteem and enhances knowledge on oral health. It encourages children to care about themselves and take responsibility for their own oral health. As a teacher, you have the opportunity to promote the importance of good oral health habits to both your students and their parents. Home is where a child learns first … and where your classroom efforts can be reinforced as children learn and practice oral health behaviors to help their smiles last a lifetime. With the information contained in Healthy Smiles Happy Smiles, you and parents can promote the same key messages to children at school and at home. For easy access, the pages have been set up in categories – in a simple format. This format facilitates the sharing of information with families and other teachers. With our Oral Health Guide you can now conduct an outreach to parents to improve their knowledge and understanding of the importance of oral health, oral hygiene, healthy eating practices, and regular dental visits. Indian Dental Association School-based oral health program can help in prevention of dental diseases by educating teachers, children's and parents on oral health. INDEX 1. Be a Guardian of Oral Health 2. What's behind your Healthy Smile: Good Oral Health? 3. Oral health: A window to your overall health 4. Structure of Mouth and beyond Teeth: What's Inside Your Mouth? 5. Teeth and their functions • Types of Teeth • Structure of Tooth • Eruption of Teeth 6. Dental Diseases • Plaque • Tooth Decay • Gum Disease 7. Home care • Tooth Paste • Fluoride • Brushing Your Teeth • Flossing 8. Visit your Dentist - Regular Check up 9. Self Examination 10. Ten Tips to maintain Good Oral Hygiene 11. Sealants 12. Trauma 13. Dental emergencies 14. General Health Be a Guardian of Oral Health Parents and Teachers are Oral Care Role Models Children imitate the actions of the adults around them. Both teachers and parents can act as oral health role models. Encourage children to follow your lead in practicing good oral health that leads to a Healthy Smile Happy Smile! How our school based programme helps students to achieve Good Oral Health. Good Oral Health is important to children's and adolescents' overall health and well being. As you interact with students and parents, you can influence their lives in important ways by teaching them about oral health. Pain and suffering should not be an option Although it is no longer unusual to see children smiling with a full set of unmarred teeth, millions of zxzxzxother children have little to smile about. For them, the daily reality is persistent dental pain, endurance of dental abscesses, inability to eat comfortably or chew well, embarrassment at discolored and damaged teeth and distraction from play and learning. Children and adolescents with poor oral health may have many other problems: • Developing infections from tooth decay and/or gum disease, which could lead to other serious health problems. • Difficulty chewing food, which could result in poor nutrition and, in turn, impaired physical development. • Speech problems. • Difficulty concentrating and learning, and absence from school because they are in pain. • Having psychological problems such as low self esteem, and being at high risk for social stigma because of decayed teeth and chronic bad breath. • Having fewer opportunities in life, compared to their peers with good oral health. • Conduct outreach to parents to improve their knowledge and understanding of the importance of oral health, oral hygiene, healthy eating practices, and regular dental visits. Most oral health problems can be prevented. Here are some tips for promoting oral health with students and their parents: • Conduct an oral health assessment on students by asking them about their personal oral hygiene practices (e.g., brushing and flossing their teeth). • Add prompts to problem list (print or electronic records) that remind health professionals to ask students about their oral health and provide education. • Offer preventive oral health care services (e.g.,fluoride varnish) delivered by oral health professionals. • Stress the importance of good oral hygiene, including brushing teeth with fluoridated toothpaste at least twice a day (in the morning and at night) and flossing at least once a day, preferably before brushing at night. • Teach students what a healthy mouth looks like, how to recognize early signs of oral disease, and what can be done to reverse or treat oral disease. • Encourage students to drink water throughout the day instead of sweetened beverages like sports drinks, fruit drinks, and soda. • Encourage students to wear seatbelts when riding in motor vehicles and mouth guards and other protective gear when participating in physical activities or sports such as biking, or in-line skating or when playing baseball, basketball, football, hockey. • Conduct outreach to parents to improve their knowledge and understanding of the importance of oral health, oral hygiene, healthy eating practices, and regular dental visits. Lost School time and restricted activity days Children due to acute dental problems and related illnesses loose school hours and miss their school. Children with low income groups loose ten times as compared to high income group. Oral Health and Learning • Early tooth loss caused by dental decay can result in failure to thrive, impaired speech development, absence from and inability to concentrate in school and reduced self - esteem. • Children who take a test while they have a toothache are unlikely to score as well as children who are restricted by pain. • Poor Oral health has been related to decreased school performance, poor social relationship, and less success rate in life. Children experiencing pain are distracted and unable to concentrate on schoolwork. • Children are often unable to verbalize their dental pain. Teachers may notice a child who is having difficulty attending to task or who is demonstrating the effects of pain - anxiety, fatigue, irritability, depression and withdrawal from normal activities. However, teachers cannot understand these behaviors if they are not aware that a child has a dental problem. • Children with chronic dental pain are unable to focus, are easily distracted and may have problems with schoolwork completion. They may also experience deterioration of school performance, which negatively impacts their self esteem. • If a child is suffering pain from a dental problem, it may affect the child's school attendance, mental and social well-being while at school. If left untreated, the pain and infection caused by tooth uploads/Finance/ teachers-guide 3 .pdf