[Studies on the education of juveniles about dental and oral health. 3. Reflections on environmental behavioural influences of the school].

A health promoting behavioural modification begins in early school age. It is a very complex process requiring among others closed social environment variables. It is difficult to achieve a dental health consciousness on a large scale integrated in the health education. It is not a direct working object of the teacher. The institution "school" as paedagogical instrument for the development of general life fitness has to share this task with the family and to develop on this basis individual thinking and responsible acting of the pupils. Only in this way can be developed also their preventive consciousness and behavior at the same time.