The pilot study of the transforming shirt used for brushing intellectual and developmental disorder children’s teeth.
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This pilot study developed the transforming shirts to limit movement of intellectual and developmental disorder children helping parents brushed their children’s teeth conveniently. The assessment was immediately done after the brushing. The samples were 29 parents which their 3-8 year children received preventive dental services at Rajanukul Institute and did not cooperate with their parents during toothbrushing, during April – June 2013.The transforming shirt is a shirt that has no sleeves, attached with belt, made of Tore cloth. There are 4 sizes which are XS, S M and L.The method of this study was interviewing the parents’ satisfaction after using the innovation from the assessment form developed for this study. The results showed that all of the parents were female, most of them aged in range between 31-40. 59.3 percent were mother. 78.6 percent of children were ranged in age between 3-5 years. 25 percent were diagnosed as Down syndrome. 21.4 percent were diagnosed as Autistic Spectrum Disorder. 85.7 percent were used XS
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