Education on Malocclusion and Orthodontic Treatment to Increase Students' Awareness of Dental Health Through Pre-Test and Post-Test Methods at SMPN 2 Probolinggo City
Abstract:The level of public awareness of dental and oral health is still quite low, so the level prevalence of dental and oral health problems in Indonesia is still high. One of the dental and oral health problems that many people didn’t understand is malocclusion, malocclusion is about abnormalities in the position of the teeth and jaw. Malocclusion can affect the quality of life because it can interfere physically and psychologically. This lecture activity aims to increase the knowledge of students and the school community about malocclusion and orthodontic treatment which is evaluated using pretest and posttest methods for students at SMPN 2 Probolinggo City. Each class is divided into small groups to receive counseling. Before the counseling is carried out, each student is given a pretest sheet which aims to measure how much the student understands about malocclusion and orthodontic treatment. And next, malocclusion cases are examined using the ICON Index (Index of Complexity, Outcome, and Need) and than students are given counseling about malocclusion and orthodontic treatment. At the end, students were given another posttest sheet which aimed to evaluate how well the students were able to absorb and understand information about malocclusion and orthodontic treatment. Based on the total score obtained, it can be determined that the level of understanding and to absorb/receive information of the counseling for female students is better than for male students. This can be seen from the total population, the percentage of female students is 39.34% who can receive the information very well, 6.23% of female students who have not been able to absorb/receive the counseling information, 8.52% of female students have no change in understanding (get the same point for pretest and posttest), and 0, 66% of female students understood from the start about malocclusion and orthodontic treatment. Meanwhile, 23.93% of male students were able to absorb/receive the information very well, 8.85% of male students were not able to absorb/receive the information well, and 9.84% of male students had no change in their understanding of malocclusion and 2.62% of male students understood from the start about malocclusion and orthodontic treatment. From the results of the data above, it can show the level of understanding and is expected to provide an initial overview of counseling methods for adolescent subjects.Keywords: Education, Malocclusion, Orthodontic, Probolinggo