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
A questionnaire study of Minnesota dentists and dental students dealing with current issues revealed differences in their perception among various subgroups according to age, size of community and type of practice. Younger dentists and other students were more willing to delegate new duties.
Dental hygiene programs were surveyed to determine current availability of patients to meet the training needs of dental hygiene students. Eighty‐six percent of the programs responded. Widespread inadequate to marginal patient availability was reported in periodontics and radiology. Two major reasons cited for patient shortages were, first, that completion of treatment requires too much time, and, second, that people are unaware of the scope of services performed by students. Patient shortages do not appear to be contributing to changes in the curriculum or fiscal problems in dental hygiene programs.
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