Fada Dentina: desenvolvimento de protótipo de um aplicativo móvel para a promoção da saúde oral na primeira infância

Abstract

Early childhood is the period that comprises the child's first years of life, birth and six years (71 months). It is a period where there are intense growth and development processes. For oral health, is a very important period formonitoring and promotion of oral health since there is the eruption of all the primary teeth and the beginning of the permanent dentition. In this context, it is interesting to develop instruments and strategies for use in the dentistry clinical practice, allowing greater interaction between the dentist and the pediatric patient and their families. It is essential to think of an innovative way of informing and guiding parents and guardians about the changes that occur in the oral cavity and the best measures to have a good oral health. With this in mind, the objective of this project is to develop an application to support oral health care in early childhood. A bibliographic search was carried out which returned a range of studies focused on management of oral healthy problems, especially about early childhood caries however, there is little related to the use of technologies for this purpose. The information system is undeveloped to be used by dentists, children, parents and guardians and dentistry students. A prototyping technological production study was carried out. The construction study followed the contextualized instructional design model, using two stages: analysis and design and development. The developed system will be used as an educational tool to provide information and guidance to parents and/or guardians and their children, in order to promote behavioral change, easy to access and use, constituting an innovate auxiliary tool for health promotion and the prevention and control of oral diseases