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The authors describe some aspects of an activity of prevention directed to a target group in a hospital stomatology department. They describe locations and their operative destination; the time of intervention in different phases; the considerations on the efficiency of a program of prevention constant in time.
The paper analyses the opinion and proposals which emerged from a series of meetings held between the local health units, school representatives and the Department of Health of the Veneto Regional Government in the context of a regional plan for oral and dental hygiene aimed at kindergarten and primary school children. In addition to the traditional sensitivity of schools with regard to health-related problems, in the future in would be advantageous to involve families directly at the level of pediatric outpatient clinics (in order to create an adequate clinical back-up), thus removing dental care from a strictly educational context.
The authors have evaluated their experience in the field of dental prevention accumulated over the course of the past few years. It is apparent that there is considerable interest in projects aimed at restricted target groups, in this case children between 6-7 years old. Attention is also focused on synergies deriving from the collaboration between doctors (dentists and non-dentists), teachers, parents and public officials.
The paper presents, explains and comments on the theoretical, practical and applied aspects of a collaborative enterprise between Health Services and a primary school in the context of a dental hygiene and preventive project organised by the USSL no. 19 in Mediobrenta. The enterprise in question concerned the experimental writing, by the children themselves, of a school diary, based on messages regarding dental health and hygiene formulated by the Odontostomatological Service in line with learning processes and communication models used during infancy. The experiment formed part of the general active approach of modern psychological pedagogy, and proved particularly efficacious in introducing medical concepts to an infantile population which would otherwise have met with much greater resistance.
A vaccine was prepared from the growth of Bordetella pertussis by repeated treatment with acetone. The vaccine has been designated as acetone-treated pertussis vaccine (ATPV). A total of ten batches of ATPV were prepared, five each from B. pertussis strains 134 and 509. These strains are routinely employed at this Institute for the production of conventional whole-cell pertussis vaccine (WCPV) for blending in diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus vaccine. The mouse protective and histamine sensitizing activities of ATPV and WCPV were compared. The ATPV showed 1.5- to 2-fold higher potency than the WCPV. The histamine sensitizing activity of ATPV was much reduced compared with that of the WCPV. No appreciable difference was observed in the results of a mouse weight-gain tests between the ATPV and WCPV. The details of the preparation of ATPV have been described. Because of higher potency and reduced histamine sensitizing activity, the ATPV may prove more acceptable in immunization programmes against pertussis, even in countries where WCPV is unpopular due to its suspected reactogenicity.
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Authors describe epidemiological data (DMF: 0.23; dmf: 3.86) about children involved in Progetto Città Murata attending first elementary school, born in the 1983. The 80.39% of children took regularly fluoride tablets in the last year. For the first time 35.18% were visited by the dentist. During the program have been applied 1499 sealants and made 50 fillings.
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The Authors evaluate some parameters relative to the concentration of fluoride in the potable water and in that bottled available in the territory of the Ussl no. 19. The integration of these parameters with the data that regard some life habits (frequency of assumption of the fluoride compresses, beverages of common use) in a target group, underlines the importance of the educational aspects of a preventive program in a community environment aiming to obtain the benefits of such method.
The Authors have examined the spontaneous attitude of the children of the first elementary class during a day spent at the department of Odontostomatology in a course programme for education and prevention of caries. It was shown an extremely positive behaviour, with images principally centered on the trip between school and Hospital (the bus, the sight of the town). The teachers based on a day by day diary have demonstrated a positive impression on the various aspects of the initiative, stressing the importance of continuative relationship between doctors-teachers-parents.
Through a questionnaire filled by the children's accompaniers involved in prevention program of the first elementary classes, was emerged a direct involvement of the parents. In the field of the scholastic prevention, the teacher is the principal mediator with the families. It emerges from the answers a frasting attitude of what was performed by our sanitary service, and a direct information adopted by mass media in the prevention field. Up till now it is not totally perceived the importance of the periodic controls to maintain a better oro-dental health of their children.