AKSI PREVENTIF (PENYULUHAN, SIKAT GIGI BERSAMA, PEMERIKSAAN DAN PENCABUTAN GIGI) DALAM UPAYA PENINGKATAN KESEHATAN GIGI MULUT ANAK DI SDN 07 DAN SDN 109 NEGERI IHAMAHU SAPARUA TIMUR MALUKU TENGAH

Abstrak

This activity aims to increase children's knowledge, awareness, and motivation in implementing a clean and healthy lifestyle, especially the behavior of brushing teeth properly and sustainably. Preventive actions (counseling, mass toothbrushing, dental examination, and tooth extraction) to improve oral health are the options chosen to increase children's awareness that dental health is very important. This descriptive study aims to describe data on community service activities by the Jejak Muda Indonesia community in Negeri Ihamahu, Saparua, Central Maluku. Participants in this activity consisted of two schools, namely SDN 07 and SDN 109 Negeri Ihamahu. Activities carried out in the form of counseling, mass toothbrushing, dental examination, and tooth extraction carried out both outside and inside the room: a) Dental and oral health counseling with talkative methods using poster media with material on how to brush teeth properly, recognizing tooth decay, causes and symptoms of tooth decay and how to prevent tooth decay b) Mass toothbrushing activities outside the classroom, c) Dental and oral examinations aim to determine the level of children's dental and oral health by seeing whether or not there are carious teeth, filled teeth, missing teeth, loose teeth, and other dental and oral abnormalities, d) Extraction of loose teeth. With preventive actions, it is hoped that students can be more aware that dental and oral health is very important to increase motivation to always maintain healthy behavior in everyday life to achieve optimal health levels.