Table 1.

List of activities included in interventions/studies

No	List of activities included in interventions/studies
01	Oral health education sessions for children [8, 28–49]
02	Oral health education sessions for parents [27, 28, 30, 32, 33]
03	Integration of activities into the school curriculum [8, 28, 31, 33, 34, 50, 36]
04	Training for those delivering the program [8, 27, 28, 31–33, 50, 51, 45–47, 50–52] and follow up training for reinforcement [8, 27]
05	Provision and use of educational materials to children such as charts, posters, pictures, games, models and audio-visual aids [8, 9, 27, 29, 30, 32–34, 51, 40–45, 44, 45]
06	Demonstration of oral health self-care [27, 31, 34, 38, 40, 44–46]
07	Provision and use of instruction manuals [8, 31, 33, 46–48, 48]
08	Oral examination, informing parents [9, 25, 32, 34, 37, 43] and offer of free treatment [37]
09	Provision of fluoride toothpaste [9, 33, 34, 52] and tooth brush [28, 34]
10	Provision of fluoride mouth rinse [38, 45] and fluoride gel [38]
11	Regular visits to motivate teachers [27, 34]
12	Supervised tooth brushing [23, 24, 27, 31, 50, 52, 38, 39] and flossing [39], and brush with disclosed plaque visualization [22]
13	Tour of dental hospital/health clinic [9, 36]
14	Peer health education, supervision of toothbrushing and training of children [36]
15	Provision of sugar free chewing gum [27]
16	Knowledge contests on oral health knowledge, painting oral health situations, brushing teeth, and public speaking [9, 29, 30, 36]
17	Provision of preventive and curative care including sealing pits and fissures, removal of calculus, restoring cavities, emergency care, treating pulpally involved teeth, and zinc supplementation [9, 25, 26, 50, 52]
18	Provision of take-home materials such as brush charts, parent educational flyers and calendars [30, 33, 43, 53, 48]
19	Use of mass media to provide information about the project activities [31, 50, 52]
20	Attending annual conferences [39] and national convention and exhibition [36]
21	Action planning exercises, rate how confident they were and identify barriers to dental flossing [35]
22	Children conduct health activities at school [36, 42, 47]
23	Children formulate a proposition of, ways to overcome obstacles and formulate goals to brush three times a day [44]
24	Demonstration and practice on how to make a chew stick [46]