Jurnal Kesehatan Gigi
Vol. 11 No. 1 (2024): juni 2024

Effectiveness of Using Linanty Smart Dent Alarm As A Reminder to Brush Teeth for Primary School Age Children In Medan City

Ramadhan, Ety Sofia (Unknown)
Hamsar, Adriana (Unknown)
Herlinawati, Herlinawati (Unknown)
Wahyuningtyas, Miranda Gita (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
07 Jun 2024

Abstract

According to the data on the number of dental caries in elementary school students in Medan City is quite high, with an average value of caries of 6, meaning that there are 6 caries teeth in each child's oral cavity, One of the efforts made to remind and attract the attention of children to routinely brush their teeth properly and correctly is to make a media, introduce and use a reminder alarm to brush children's teeth that is packaged as attractive as possible,  Embedded brushing song also as an alarm tone. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of using Linanty Smart Dent Alarm as a reminder to brush the teeth of elementary school-age children in the city of Medan. The first year of research (in 2023) carried out the creation of Linanty Smart Dent Alarm, to produce Alarm media embedded with brushing songs, the distal alarm sounds at the time of 2 minimum brushing times, namely, after breakfast and before going to bed at night. In obtaining the results of Linanty Smart Dent Alarm, trials were carried out by experts, namely by media experts, psychologists and education experts. In obtaining the results of Linanty Smart Dent Alarm, trials were carried out by experts, namely by media experts, psychologists and education experts and tested for feasibility by elementary school students. Due diligence results of 86.7% stated that Linanty Smart Dent Alarm is useful and very feasible to use.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jkg

Publisher

Subject

Dentistry

Description

Jurnal Kesehatan Gigi includes an article on dental health research (p-ISSN: 2407-0866 e-ISSN: 2621-3664) Jurnal Kesehatan Gigi is a journal publish original research papers, review articles and case studies focused on : Dental nursing, dental health, dentistry, community dental health, dental and ...