Ho Chi Minh City sets up mobile team to take care of students' oral health

The Department of Health and the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City are coordinating to pilot the school-station model for school dentistry in District 1, District 5, District 6 and Can Gio District, before expanding it throughout the city.

Accordingly, the mobile dental teams include school staff, health stations, health centers, Ho Chi Minh City Hospital of Odonto-Stomatology or Central Hospital of Odonto-Stomatology of Ho Chi Minh City. These teams will examine, check oral health, and provide preventive treatment twice a year for all students studying at 7 primary schools (Tran Hung Dao, District 1, Bau Sen and Minh Dao, District 5, Lam Son and Nguyen Hue, District 6, Can Thanh and Can Thanh 2 of Can Gio).

At the opening ceremony of the training program for students on April 13, Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Anh Dung, Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health, said that this activity aims to improve the quality of oral health care for students in the city. In the context of the health sector being determined to transform digitally, digital data on oral health care for school-age children will contribute to enriching health data for the city's people.

After the pilot period, Ho Chi Minh City will organize a preliminary review and draw lessons to serve as a basis for developing a plan for mass implementation in the next school year and the following years. After the training course, the mobile dental teams will start their examinations from April 22.

Doctors in Ho Chi Minh City examine and treat teeth for patients. Photo: HL

Based on the results of the dental screening, school health workers will make a list of students with dental problems that need intervention treatment at the screening session to guide parents and guardians to take their children to medical facilities for examination and treatment. The results of students' dental treatment will also be monitored regularly.

The World Health Organization (WHO) surveyed the oral health of Vietnamese children in 2019, recording a rate of 46.5% of the 1-9 year old group with cavities in baby teeth, 28% of the group over 5 years old with cavities in permanent teeth. In many cases, when teeth first started to decay, children were not proactively treated early, making the condition more serious, causing many health effects.

Le Phuong

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