School-Based Oral Health Promotion By the Community Dentistry Department

The Department of Community & Preventive Dentistry at Ziauddin College of Dentistry organized a School Health Promotion Program at The Educators School at Clifton Block 2 on 8^th November 2023. The program was led by Dr. Sidra Mohiuddin, Associate Professor and Head of the Department along with Dr.Yousra Altaf, Dr. Ramsha Zarar, Lecturers, and Second year BDS Batch 13 students.

The primary goal of this community-oriented program was to create awareness among school children and staff regarding effective oral hygiene practices, recognizing the substantial time children spend in school. The school administration expressed satisfaction with the thorough dental check-ups and services provided by the team.

The activities included free dental checkups of school children, oral health education via video learning that was provided by Colgate Palmolive, and demonstration of recommended tooth brushing techniques to the school children by the faculty members.

In the end, a question and answer session was conducted with school children to assess their learning from the school-based oral health education activities as well as distribution of oral hygiene aids kits to school children and to the staff. The activity was organized in collaboration with Colgate Palmolive.Top of Form