Before a school-based dental sealant program begins to operate in a school, the following tasks should be completed:
- Staff must receive required training and information.
- The school calendar must be checked to determine program start and end dates.
- Parents must receive education about the program, and consent forms must be distributed, collected, and reviewed to make sure they contain parent signatures.
- If student health histories are collected, they must be reviewed, and follow-up with parents or primary care professionals must take place in cases where there are possible health concerns.
- Student records should be organized so that records can be easily located. This can be done by color-coding paper records and collating them by room number or by assigning a code to each electronic record that allows them to be sorted by room number.
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