Proyecto educativo sobre higiene bucal dirigido a niños y niñas de la escuela Miguel Ángel Lombeyda de la comunidad Suquibi. Cantón Guaranda. Provincia de Bolívar. 2012

Abstract

It was implemented an Educational Project on buccal hygiene for children attending to public School “Miguel Angel Lombeyda”, Bolivar province. Information on socio-demographical characteristics, knowledge and practices was compiled through surveys to 30 students. Some of the obtained results: 47% corresponds to women and 53% corresponds to men, ages between 8 to 9 years, 13% does not know about the tooth structure, 30% does not know on buccal illnesses, 23% does not know causes; 43% does not know on consequences, 37% does not know on prevention forms and 27% does not know on healthful feeding to take care of teeth. Due to the low level of knowledge, it was applied the educative project on buccal hygiene, the need detection was carried out through David Leyva technique and the pedagogic sequence of contents was based on Morganov Herdia technique; the project consisted of eight class plans using techniques like brain storming, “collage”, practical work, marionettes, dynamical activities, individual and group work, all of them based on didactical material like posters, ect. According to results related to the Educative Project, it has been obtained in a 93% to increase the children knowledge; it is suggested to School Head and especially to Ministerio the Education to go on with the implementation of this project in order to have healthful schools.