TASK 1: TITLE ; RESEARCH METHODS. Team presentation: Research Project Team topic: Dental health My Sub-topic: Dental health Research Objective: To discover more about what dental health is and why it is important and how it works today. Research Questions: 1. What is gingivitis? 2.
What are the causes and effects of gingivitis? 3. What causes decay? 4. What causes bad breath? 5. What is tooth sensitivity? Research Methods: 1. Use the internet for information 2.
Use a New Zealand database to find relevant information 3. Use the library to find books with relevant information 4.Take notes from a YouTube video about dental health. 5. Interviewed a dentist about dental health issue TASK 2: RESEARCH LOG Research Log: 19th September: Chose topic and started researching it on the internet and other sources. Made a group profile and made five questions for each member ion the group.
26th September: researched about what are gingivitis and the causes and effect of it. 10th October: researched about what causes decay and halitosis. 11th October: phone interviewed a dentist about what dental health is and how to keep teeth fresh and clean to prevent any infections. 4th October: watched you tube videos related to my topic. Get all information together.
20th October: wrote my annotated bibliography by using different sources. 22nd October: wrote up my evaluation and proof read and edited errors. Task 3: Annotated Bibliography Colgate Professional. (2011). Retrieved from http://www.
colgateprofessional. com/patienteducation/What-Is-Gingivitis/article This article was very easy to read because it is written in simple terms. It briefly defines what gingivitis is and the symptoms and causes of it. It also has a strategy to treat gingivitis to have healthy and clean teeth.This resource has helped to answer my research questions. Watson, S.
(2011, January 23). About. Com Dental health care. Retrieved from http://dentistry.
about. com/od/basicdentalcare/f/gingivitis. htm This website gives a good definition of gingivitis and discussed the symptoms and causes of gingivitis. It also has videos related to my topic.
This was really helpful because it has other link for other information you would want to know or research about. It also mentioned strategies that could use to prevent gingivitis. NHS choices. (2012). Retrieved from http://www. hs.
uk/conditions/Dental-decay/Pages/Introduction. aspx This website gives a clear definition of tooth decay. It also mentions the symptoms and causes of decay and it is also have strategies to treat tooth decay and keep teeth clean. The website also has links to the information related to dental health such as videos. This source helped to answer my research questions.
Kathleen, L. M. (2004). Krause's food, nutrition, ; diet therapy.
Philadelphia Saunders. This book was interesting because it has a chapter about nutritional for oral and dental health.It was interesting and well explained in simply terms about dental and oral health. It was helpful because it helped with my research project. The chapter had mentioned symptoms and other dental health issues.
Basseterre, St. Kitts (October 7, 2012). Marcella Liburd Declares Dental Health Week. Retrieved from http://www. youtube. com/watch? v=LkKrn-SJ4rs This you tube video talks about how to maintain a good healthy oral care for young children.
Ensure parents to care for their children so that they will have a good oral care as they grow up.It was really interesting but it did not answer my research questions. Task 4: Evaluation My choice of topic was dental health. I decided to focus my presentation on the dental health issues and how it affects people today. My topic was easy to find information on and the information I found was easy to read and understand.
I think that the research methods I chose were appropriate. I used resources form the internet, book and also phone interviewed a dentist to find out more information my topic and get there point of view and their perspectives.Using the internet resources rather than reading books, saved me a lot of time because it easy to find information on the internet fast then searching for a book and reading through it to find information. For my written sources, I used information from internet because it was relevant to my topic and was easily found and understandable to read. For my visual source, I used you tube videos because it had a lot of videos that was really interesting to watch and learn more about dental health.For my oral source I phone interviewed a dentist who was nice and incredibly helpful and gave me a lot of information on the dental health and how to keep a clean and healthy oral care to prevent any infections.
In hindsight, if I had to chance to do more research by emailing or interviewing more than one dentist would have a big contribution to my research project. I would have also used books to find more relevant rather than just searching through the internet for information because some may not be correct at most times
