Margaret Verkuyl, Karyn Taplay, Treva Job, Sheila O'Keefe-McCarthy, Stephanie Atthill, Sandra Goldsworthy, Lynda Atack
An educator's toolkit for virtual simulation: A usability study
Nurse education today
oral health care children special needs remains largely unmet important focus preventive strategies special children help curtail prevent oral diseases study aimed assess effect visual pedagogy probiotic mouth rinse periodontal health hearing impaired children study cohort consisted twenty children hearing impairment hi 20 agematched healthy children gingival index gi plaque index pi salivary ph children assessed baseline 15 days oral hygiene training using visual pedagogy 15 days probiotic mouth rinse introduction end test period ie 2 months discontinuing probiotics comparison means carried using students ttest intragroup parameters assessed using oneway anova followed post hoc scheffe test value statistical significance fixed 005 gi pi scores improve significantly oral hygiene training either two groups use probiotic mouth rinse significantly reduced gi scores 001 pi scores 001 increased salivary ph critical ph groups use visual pedagogy coupled probiotic mouth rinsing may improve periodontal status children hi explored preventive procedure children special healthcare needs