[Evaluation of a teaching program as caries and periodontal prophylaxis]

Evaluation of the teaching program on caries and periodontal prophylaxis for students in the first preclinical semester in the dental school shows that after four evaluation steps with a total of 159 pro-bands the final test was answered to more than 80%, that it may be expected that about 65% of the knowledge is memorized after one and a half years, and that teaching a patient how to clean his teeth may be regarded as promising with the students having behaved correctly with regard to more than 70% of the most important criteria. Since the training program is independently worked through by the students, in addition to the other lectures, the continuing program may be based on the above mentioned values.