Disease Prevention and Control

Oral Health Education

Oral health education is a key component of INMED’s Healthy Children, Healthy Futures program model in Brazil. Through classroom lessons and participatory activities on oral health and related topics, all children in Healthy Children, Healthy Futures project sites learn the correct way to brush and take care of their teeth, and why good oral health is important to general health. In project sites near dental schools, children also receive an annual dental exam and fluoride application from dentists and dental students who volunteer their time to the projects.

Preschoolers in the Healthy Children, Healthy Futures program—costumed as a tooth, a dentist, dental floss and a tube of toothpaste—present a skit for their classmates about how to take good care of their teeth.

A dental student volunteer instructs children in the proper way to brush their teeth after each child receives his/her own oral health kit.