72 Percent of People Have Toothache

Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry (FKG), North Sumatra University (USU), Professor. Ismet Daniel Nasution, said that about 72 percent of Indonesia's population has the experience of caries (tooth decay) and 46.5 of Them That are active caries have not been treated.
    
"This is derived from the latest data Issued by the Ministry of Health of Riskesdas (basic health research) in 2007, and in general suffered by the children," he said in Medan on Wednesday.

According to uterus, the cause of the high prevalence of dental and oral diseases in general Because of behavioral factors and oral health services are not evenly.

"In terms of tooth Brushing habits, as much as 91 percent of people aged 10 years and over have been doing every day, but only seven percent of Brushing teeth twice at the right time, ie after breakfast and before bed at night," he said.

Seeing there were the resource persons so many teeth and mouth disease That affects the community, especially in rural areas, it has established cooperation with PT Unilever in the program Villages built in the village of Ujung Rambung, District Coast Mirror, Bedagai Serdang regency, North Sumatra.

Activities undertaken in the village was built include counseling and oral health education at least once a month Throughout the year, oral health services and research to improv the oral health community.

The program is intended to encourage and MOTIVATE people to maintain and improv oral health through continuous health education and Increased knowledge, especially how the maintenance and prevention of oral disease.

About the selection of village Village Edge Rambung as partners, he said that based on the condition of the village will from some very minimal health facilities, Such as health centers are located in the capital district a distance of five kilometers from the village.

The number of children in the village the which is about one-third of the total rural population is Also one consideration maketh the village as the village built.

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