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Dental and oral health is a vital aspect of overall health that supports functions such as digestion, speech, chewing, and enhancing an individual's self-esteem and quality of life. Currently, the rate of follow-up visits by elementary school students in the Lawanggintung Health Center area remains low, leading to unmet indicators for dental services. The main issue is that students do not adhere to their scheduled dental care appointments and are permitted to seek treatment at other healthcare facilities. This study aims to analyze the role of the health center in addressing dental health issues among children in schools and to investigate the efforts made by the health center for elementary school students who have not received dental treatment. The research method employed is qualitative with a descriptive approach, utilizing interviews, observations, and documentation. The findings indicate that the health center's role in managing children's dental health issues at schools is reasonably effective through promotive, preventive, and curative efforts. The initiatives for elementary school students who have not received dental treatment mainly include referrals, providing feedback to parents and school authorities, as well as health education.    

Along with the development of technology, the use of computers as a tool really needs to be used, especially in the health sector. The Prabumulih City General Hospital is the only hospital owned by the Prabumulih City Government and is a first-level referral. The patient registration process at the Prabumulih City Hospital is still direct, by means of the patient/patient's guardian coming directly to the health service facility, then the patient is given a registration queue number, then the patient waits for a call according to the queue number, after the queue number is called, the officer will ask the type of patient new or old, poly patient purposes, outpatient or inpatient care, private payments or BPJS, after that the officer enters patient data to create a queue number for patient care in order to get health services. In this regard, it is necessary to have an application system for patient administration so that new patients can register online through the internet network, making it easy for old patients to check personal data, view doctor schedules, take queues and others.