This week was a fun week, we started Monday morning off by heading back to the Innisdale High School where we would deliver our oral hygiene instructions to the student we were paired with. When I arrived, I met up with my partner Whitney and the student we were paired with Courtney. Courtney was happy to see us and quickly began telling us all about her weekend that she had just had. She told us about the “hours and hours” of shopping she had done with her mom for summer clothes, which she said was not her favorite way to spend the weekend.
She told us that she had gotten up early that day to make sure that she brushed her teeth because she knew that we would be coming to see her that day. Whitney and I both praised her for this and told her that we were really proud of her. We used this as a way to start our oral hygiene instruction with Courtney.
Prior to coming to the high school, I recreated the brushing and flossing chart that my group made for the smile box for the Simcoe County Dental Hygienists Society, to give to Courtney to help her to remember to brush her teeth daily.
We let Courtney pick a colour of toothbrush and then we began to show her how to use it, Whitney explained the procedure or circular while I showed her on the Dexter mouth model. We then had her show us how to do it, she needed a bit of help so we went over the whole thing again a second time. Then Whitney had a great idea to get a second toothbrush for herself and brush her teeth with Courtney. This time I explained while Whitney showed her on herself and together Whitney and Courtney brushed their teeth.
After that I gave courtney the brushing chart and I showed her how to checkoff each day that she brushed her teeth in the morning and at night. The chart also had a section for flossing, but the focus of our oral hygiene instruction was simply to get Courtney to brush her teeth properly twice daily.
