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<journal-meta>
<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">JOHS</journal-id>
<journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Journ of Health Scien</journal-id>
<journal-title-group>
<journal-title>Journal of HealthCare Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">Journ of Health Scien</abbrev-journal-title>
</journal-title-group>
<issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn>
<issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name>
</publisher>
</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">99</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">http://dx.doi.org/10.52533/JOHS.2022.21103</article-id>
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<subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
<subject>Dentistry</subject>
</subj-group>
</article-categories>
<title-group>
<article-title>Implementation and Effectiveness of School-Based Dental Screening
</article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Aldergham</surname>
<given-names>Samar</given-names>
</name>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Alghubairani</surname>
<given-names>Haitham</given-names>
</name>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Kattan</surname>
<given-names>Anmar</given-names>
</name>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Alosaif</surname>
<given-names>Zahra</given-names>
</name>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Hamdi</surname>
<given-names>Bassam</given-names>
</name>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Abduldaiem</surname>
<given-names>Areej</given-names>
</name>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Alqaidy</surname>
<given-names>Manal</given-names>
</name>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Almubarak</surname>
<given-names>Loai</given-names>
</name>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Alhedaibi</surname>
<given-names>Jumanah</given-names>
</name>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>AlOlaiwi</surname>
<given-names>Lubna</given-names>
</name>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Alghamdi</surname>
<given-names>Khalid</given-names>
</name>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
<day>30</day>
<month>11</month>
<year>-0001</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>2</volume>
<issue>11</issue>
<fpage>348</fpage>
<lpage>353</lpage>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2009</copyright-year>
<license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
<license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p>
</license>
</permissions>
<abstract>
<p>The majority of children and youth attend school, and timely detection of health and developmental difficulties through school-based dental screening offers a chance for prompt intervention, enabling kids to attain their full potential in terms of development and functional health. Delays in prompt intervention incur significant financial, social, and personal costs for the community, government, and healthcare infrastructure. School-based dental screening initiatives have the ability to get around many of the logistical challenges that vulnerable communities face when trying to get primary preventative dental care. Additionally, schools have the power to influence cultural norms surrounding healthy habits and connect families to care systems. To screen for dental illness and conditions, a visual dental examination of school-aged children is used. Parents of children who test positive are notified and urged to send their child to a primary care facility for additional testing of their child__ampersandsign#39;s dental health condition and any required medical care. Consequently, screening has two goals: to recognize test-positive cases, and to guarantee that these are followed up on for the proper management. School-based dental screening is typically a component of school health services, and its model, procedure, and goals differ based on the national policies of each country__ampersandsign#39;s healthcare delivery system. Effectiveness research has shown that school dental screening has not been highly successful in the study groups at reducing untreated dental caries in either the primary or permanent dentition of young children. Additionally, population-level dental attendance has not been found to increase by screening. Limited number of positively-screening children have been observed to visit a dentist post screening. Among the small percentage of the positively-screening students who visit a dentist, only a fraction has been noted to go on to receive the necessary care in follow-ups.
</p>
</abstract>
<kwd-group>
<kwd>school-based dental screening</kwd>
<kwd> preventive dentistry</kwd>
<kwd> school dentistry</kwd>
<kwd> child</kwd>
<kwd> adolescent</kwd>
</kwd-group>
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