Ortodoncy prevention consergery in Cardenas.

Abstract

We performed an educative intervention before parents and children with the purpose of motivating them to abandon inadequate actions producing dentofacial deformations as part of the Ortodoncy Prevention Counseling created in the 2001-2002 school year and still working at the clinic “13 de marzo”, Health Area “Heroes del Moncada”, Cardenas municipality.
The Ortodoncy Prevention Counseling is offered to pre-school and first grade children presenting different deformant habits and their parents by a Dentist and a Dentist Assistant Technician with experience in health promotion and prevention. The family is included because it is the center of the common life relations and it is necessary for them to know the problems their children have and the support they have to give them from the spiritual and psychological point of view. The effect is multiplied because the team work makes easier the solution of the problems at the doctor's office. Besides that it enriches the professional's and parents´ knowledge. There were carried out 527 sessions and 143 habits were eradicated. This method avoids the usage of costly, deficit material resources and, moreover, is easy and practical.