Health Tool-Kit Intervention In Dental Practice

The health tool-kit intervention was implemented at the baseline set of health camps in January 2016. The intervention took 15 minutes to deliver. Every participant in this study has gone through the health tool-kit with one of the four bilingual FMCH health workers. The health tool-kit educational intervention and training guide instrument were designed to address the three domains of the study. The health tool-kit and training guide provides the FMCH health workers with a unique long term counseling tool to incorporate when educating women in their communities.40 The health tool-kit educational intervention is a PowerPoint (PPT) presentation created by the India Smiles team at UCB. The health tool-kit provides photos and descriptions of oral
Hera Hyder will be performing the duties of the dental assistant as she has over two years of experience chair-side assisting in a general dental practice in Mountain View, California. The dental and periodontal examinations will be performed with the study participant seated in a chair and the dentist and dental assistant seated in front of them. The examination tools used during an exam are the dental explorer, flashlight, mouth mirror as well as a periodontal probe. Both the dental examination and the periodontal exam instruments will be used to score caries and tooth decay. For proper visibility, natural light and a hand held flash light will be used. Cotton pads will be used to dry the mouth and mouthwash and bottled water will be provided with cups to rinse after the examinations.
The dental examination form is used to mark all teeth with tooth decay or cavities. Every dental examination will vary and can last from 2 minutes to 15 minutes depending on the severity of disease. The dental examination form was created with FMCH. The dentist can mark all teeth with tooth decay on a 2-D image of the upper and low teeth in the mouth. At the end of the dental examination, the dentist must sign his or her name and has the ability to refer the study participant for dental treatment. Details of the dental examination form are given
Height and weight is included to examine whether mothers with poor oral health, chronic inflammation/infection and mouth pain may have poor nutritional status; and whether improved oral health can improve nutritional status.The height of the study participant will be taken standing upright, without shoes, and will be recorded to the nearest 0.5 centimeters. The study participant will be weighed on a portable electric scale to the nearest 0.1 kilograms. The measuring equipment for weight will be recalibrated the day before the health camp as well as the morning of the health