Indonesia: Promoting Dental Health to Kids in Developing Country
As a developing country, Indonesia has been known to it's great food and people with average economy. It's allowance per capital income are not evenly distibuted. With the average economy and food that are mostly carbohydrate, it is every easy for children to get caries, or as some people know a hole in their tooth.
Indonesia is known for the carbohydrate food, which the debris of carbohydrate left in the oral cavity would turn to acid and will most likely to destroy the structure of the tooth. Most of the children complain when the caries has reached the pulp chamber. Moreover, decidious teeth and permanent teeth have a different anatomy and structure.
In Indonesia the knowledge of Dental Health is still below average. And motivating the society to want to brush their teeth makes it impossible. Moreover the average income that is below normal. Therefore, this what makes one of the members of Global Citizen Corps Indonesia to make a short lecture and workshop to 50 children living at the suburb of West Jakarta, Pekojan.
The enthusiasm of GCC leaders to recruit more people to join this action had made helped the success of the event. Starting from a mouth to mouth promote, we succeded to gather the youth of Indonesia to promote health across Indonesia.
Not just the commiittee of the action but also the children. They all seemeed thrilled to be educated in a fun way.
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