DENTAL HEALTH EDUCATION in school classrooms traditionally puts primary emphasis on knowledge gain, with little emphasis on the behavioral objective of improved dental health practices. This fact was pointed out clearly in the nationwide School Health Education Study (1). The study indicated that although children of all ages receive some form of dental health instruction in a majority of public schools in the United States, by the sixth grade students have extremely low
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