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Integrating Oral Health Into Social Marketing Campaigns: Program Development And Description For San Francisco Children’S Oral Health Strategic Plan, Carsen Bentley
Pacific Journal of Health
Integrating oral health into an existing San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) social marketing campaign was a specific goal of the San Francisco Children’s Oral Health Strategic Plan 2014-2017 with the purpose to more fully integrate oral health promotion into the City’s overall health promotion efforts. In the winter of 2015, utilizing a collaborative approach, oral health was successfully integrated in the Open Truth campaign, promoting decreased consumption of sugar sweetened beverages in order to improve health outcomes, including decreasing tooth decay.
Comparative Efficacy Of Video And Text Instructional Modalities For An Oral Surgery Technique Among Dental Students, Ho-Hyun Brian Sun, Jeffrey A. Elo, Grant D. Mcclendon, Hardev Singh, Chan M. Park
Comparative Efficacy Of Video And Text Instructional Modalities For An Oral Surgery Technique Among Dental Students, Ho-Hyun Brian Sun, Jeffrey A. Elo, Grant D. Mcclendon, Hardev Singh, Chan M. Park
Pacific Journal of Health
Purpose: To gauge the efficacy of video media in pre-doctoral oral and maxillofacial surgery education and compare it to traditional text-based learning materials.
Methods: Twenty novice dental students were randomly divided into two groups to place an Erich arch bar to the maxillary dentition of a dentoform. Group A was given a 10 minute video instruction while Group B was given 10 minutes to review written text instruction. All participants were given 45 minutes to place the arch bar on a dentoform while being recorded. This session concluded with a survey of student perceptions using the SEEQ. The …