[Effectiveness of actual information material in dental health education. Results of questioning lower Saxony orientation students].

The effectiveness of dental health educational measures in the Federal Republic of Germany is often termed insufficient by specialists. In order to test this statement, a written survey was done with 903 children aged 10-14. Selected results: Most of the school children are of the opinion that what they know is derived from personal communication. Dentists, they say, have been their most important sources of information. Most of the children consider themselves to be sufficiently well-informed, a subjective judgement that cannot, however, be objectively verified by analysis of the answers dealing with concrete knowledge.