Dental Camp in the target area (Mohichali Union, Chandina Upazila, Comilla ).

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"Mohichali" Seminar -> Training the school teachers for becoming a good instructor:

- Two teachers of every schools including head teacher were trained how to manage the oral health of the students at Seminar everytime.
- A dentists(leader) of Bangladesh demonstrated TBI and provided the professional education for training the school teachers.
- Japanese Dental College Students who participated in these Seminars also served as professional instructors and staff.

Workout of Pictures Slide Show by the Head Teachers of 12 Primary Schools

- Enlightenment to School Management Committee, and Maternal and Child Health Worker were also done.
 
-Local government/medical/educational officials, members of the community clinics, district nurses and school managing committee members were also invited to attend the seminars for the understanding and acceptance of our activities.

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Tooth Brushing Instruction (TBI) -> Tooth brushing instruction was performed after giving an idea/(basic understanding) about common dental diseases five 5 times, twice a year from 2009 to 2011.:

- Instruction methods and materials:
 
Picture-story in Bengali had been shown along with practical tooth brushing demonstration using Large Model and Tooth brush.
 
Tooth brushing practice is carried out by children of the target schools themselves with small headed tooth brush and paste.
(The head of tooth brush is usually too large to make proper tooth bruhing especially for children.)

Fluorine in toothpaste was expected to be effective for preventing caries disease.

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STEP First Step --->
Bangladesh Dentists were trained about "TBI Project" by instructors with the advice from Japanese Staff.

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Second Step --->
Bangladesh Dentists demonstrated TBI for the School Teachers and pupils
 
Japanese Dental college students who participated in these Seminars also served.
 
A picture-story was shown along with practical demonstration using Model and Tooth brushes.
Pupils tried brushing their teeth with a toothbrush and toothpaste as instructed by the Bangladesh dentists.

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Third Step --->
Bangladesh Dental College Students with Project Teams carried out TBI for School Children.

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Final Step --->
Primary Schools Teachers carry out TBI for School Children !
 

Practice of Pictures Slide Show by the teachers !

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Next Step --->

To Pupils by Students of many levels.

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Oral and Dental Checkup (OC):

-Oral checkup for DMFT, Oral Hygiene Index, and Gingival index was done for children of the target schools.
 
- Project Teams and Bangladesh Dentists carried out Oral and Dental Checkup to make a proposal on how to implement an oral health care project in the rural areas based on the results.

Data regarding oral health care and eating habit was obtained using a questionnaire for children of the target schools.

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