Dental plaque control

Abstract

An analisys on the role of the chernicals, antibiotics and enzymatics agents used on Dental Plaque Control in done and pointed out the importance, till this moment, in the mechanical agents use to remove the dental plaque as well as the necessity to educate people on how to do it. A description of the three Education Objectives Domains: cognitive, affective and physicomotor and discuss the domain sequence on the learning process. A survey among 157 people of four different economical and educational levels shows that the most people understand what produces gingival bleeding during thootbrushing less is the amount of their inflamatory periodont disease and vice-versa. It is pointed out the necessity to be established, in public health the cognitive and affective domains levels, in order to have an excelent performance on physicomotor level.