Dental Public Health
The first dental hygienist trained by Dr. Alfred Fones
Instruction on health behaviors that bring a person to a state of heath awareness.
What is Health Education?
A broad statement of the final outcome that the teacher expects from the target group after a presentation.
What is a Goal?
Give an example of a community prevention program.
What is community water fluoridation? Sealants in schools? FL varnish in schools? Mouthguard programs? DH in Nursing homes?
What does DMFT stand for?
What is decayed, missing, filled teeth?
Strategies and agents to forestall the onset of disease, reverse the progress or arrest it.
What is primary prevention?
A behavior that becomes automatic.
What is a habit?
Specific, observable action or behavior that a learner will perform or exhibit.
What is an objective?
The FIRST step in program planning.
What is conducting a NEEDS ASSESSMENT?
Teeth #’s 3, 9, 12, 19, 25, 28.
What are Ramfjord teeth?
Also known as restorative care, routine treatment methods to terminate the disease process and/or restore tissues.
What is secondary prevention?
Ideas and beliefs a person has that influence behavior, give meaning to our lives.
What are values?
The 3 different learning domains
What are psychomotor, cognitive, affective?
The step in program planning where goals and objectives are made.
What is during the planning stage?
Types of clinical evaluations?
What are dental indices?
A process that informs and motivate people to adopt healthy behaviors.
What is Health Promotion?
When a person decreases sugar in their diet is an example of what?
What is a behavior change?
These engage learners and help organize the lesson plan.
What are visual aids.
When the program actually begins.
What is implementation?
Non-numerical data evaluation such as surveys, interviews and observations.
What is qualitative evaluation?
One of the 10 great Public Health measures adopted in the last century.
What is community water fluoridation?
When the needs at one level are met the next higher level can be address in a linear stair-up approach.
What are Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs?
Which learning domain can these verbs be used in? Advocate, Believe, Defend, Discuss, Value, Suggest
What is the Affective Domain
T/F Documentation happens at the very end of the program planning stages.
What is False?
Type of dental caries examination where a mouth mirror, tongue depressor and available illumination is used.
What is a Type 4- screening?