INSTAGRAM SEBAGAI MEDIA EDUKASI PENINGKATAN PENGETAHUAN KESEHATAN GIGI DAN MULUT

Knowledge of how to maintain proper dental health will greatly affect the incidence of dental caries, brushing and rinsing teeth - gargling is one of the behaviors to maintain oral hygiene. behavior based on correct knowledge will last longer than behavior that is not based on knowledge, an effort to increase knowledge is through health education. Online media is one of the educational media to increase knowledge of dental and oral health. The type of research in this study is a comparative comparative analysis or "causal-comparative". Quota sampling technique sampling, the research location was conducted in SMA N 3 Bandar Lampung ..as many as 100 people. The research variable was the online media instagram in increasing knowledge of caries. Statistical analysis used the T-test to see the relationship between Instagram in increasing knowledge. The results showed instagram can that there was a role for online media education in increasing knowledge of cavities.

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EDUCATION LEVEL AND KNOWLEDGE OF DENTAL CARIES AND TOOTH BRUSHING SKILLS IN PREGNANT WOMEN IN SOUTH DENPASAR DISTRICT 2021

Dental and oral health is a healthy condition of the hard and soft tissues of the teeth and related elements in the oral cavity that allow individuals to eat, talk and interact socially without dysfunction, esthetic disturbances, and discomfort due to disease, occlusion irregularities and tooth loss so able to live productively socially and economically. The main problems of dental and oral health that are most commonly found in the community are dental caries and periodontal disease. One of the causes of dental caries is the behavior when brushing teeth is wrong because it is done in the morning shower and evening shower and not after breakfast and before bed at night. The purpose of this study was to describe knowledge about dental caries and tooth brushing skills in pregnant women in South Denpasar sub- district in 2021. This study used 40 pregnant women as respondents. The results of this study indicated that the knowledge of pregnant women about dental caries was mostly in the sufficient category, namely 19 people (47.50%). The average knowledge about dental caries in pregnant women was 73.75 with sufficient category. The majority of pregnant women brushing skills in the category of needing guidance were 17 people (42.50%). The average tooth brushing skill among pregnant women was 59.25 with the category of needing guidance. The results of this research on brushing skills based on knowledge of dental caries were that seven pregnant women (36.84%) had the skills to brush their teeth in the category of need guidance with sufficient knowledge of caries category. The Conclusion There is a relationship between education level and knowledge about dental caries in pregnant women and there is a relationship between knowledge level and tooth brushing skills in pregnant women in South Denpasar District.