PERBEDAAN EFEKTIFITAS MENYIKAT GIGI DENGAN BULU SIKAT SOFT DAN BULU SIKAT MEDIUM DENGAN TEKNIK KOMBINASI TERHADAP PERUBAHAN DEBRIS INDEK PADA SISWA USIA 10-11 TAHUN Di SDN PADANGSARI 02 SEMARANG

Brushing teeth is one way to maintain dental and oral hygiene. The choice of brush bristles for children needs to be considered in relation to removing plaque and debris. Toothbrush on the market has various degrees of bristle hardness, Starting from soft (soft), medium (medium), and hard (hard). The purpose of this study was to determine the differences in the effectiveness of brushing teeth with soft and medium Toothbrush brush bristles with a combination technique against changes in index debris in students aged 10-11 years in Padangsari 02 Elementary School Semarang.This study was quasi experiment using two group pretest-posttest design. The sample used in this study was 60 samples, divided into 2 groups, each group consisted of 30 students group 1 treated with soft toothbrush and group 2 treated with medium toothbrush. Data analysis were performed by univariate and bivariate analysis using the test Wilxocon and Mann Whitney to find out the differences between the influence variables and the affected variables.The results of this study based on the test were Mann Whitney obtained with p-value = 0.078 (p> 0.05), so it could be concluded that there was no significant difference between brushing teeth with soft and medium toothbrush with combination techniques against the changes in debris in of student aged 10-11 years in Padangsari 02 Elementary School Semarang