Basic Oral Hygiene Course For Patients 

 Basic Oral Hygiene For Patients Course

• Use to teach patients how to have healthy teeth and gums for a lifetime
  • For anyone over 10 years of age
  • For patients with or without braces
  • Can be tailored to meet the needs of the individual patient
    • Teach only one section such as oral hygiene with braces (5 minutes)
    • Or use the entire program to teach an adolescent about decalcification, decay and sugar, gum disease, brushing and flossing (14 minutes)
  • Can be used as part of an effective Oral Hygiene Program in a practice using a "script"

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• Pretest
  • Assesses current knowledge so learning can be focused
  • Can be skipped

Take Pretest

•  Uses short interactive quizzes for feedback on learning
  • Quizzes can be skipped
  • Quizzes provide feedback on learning objectives of the section
  • Quiz questions repeated on post-test 

• Post-test
  • One post-test for individuals without braces and another for patients with braces
  • 10 questions on each post-test all taken from the interactive quizzes
  • Name of test taker can be added to completed post-test and then post-test results can be printed
    • For use in a school where a class learns the online course
    • For the individual to print and hand in to the treating doctor for a prize
    • For a child to give to parent to document learning

Take Post-test

• History 
  • First used in 54 elementary schools in the Anchorage School District in 1980s to teach oral hygiene concepts to all second grade students
  • In 2000 course was translated into Spanish and Japanese and produced on a CD
  • In 2001 course was revised with the help of 100 practicing dental hygienists who were members of the Alaska State Dental Hygiene Association
  • In 2002 the course won an award from the American Dental Educators Association Technology Competition 
  • In 2005 course was republished with pretest and post-test
  • In 2006 interactive quizzes were added
  • In 2007 course was republished on CD for retail sales
  • In 2008 couse was published on the Internet for free access to users around the world
  • 2009 BOH course is available for publishing on individual and public websites for free
  • No commercial support was used in any phase of the development or publishing this course

Script to use when teaching BOH

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 Basic Oral Hygiene For Patients on CD and on Mini-CD

• Individual copies of Basic Oral Hygiene For Patients-  $9.99 each
• Wholesale pricing for sales in Retail Stores with bulk pricing for 100 or more -call ITI

 Basic Oral Hygiene For Patients on Mini-CD

• Great gift for patients, referring doctors, and at community events

• 3.5 inch CD with plastic sleeve

• Bulk pricing of 100 or more at $5 each