Public Health Global Conference

Public health dentistry aims at reducing the prevalence of diseases of the mouth, teeth and surrounding structures in a community with involvement of prevention and education and provision of specialized dental care. Mouth health is vital as it always has an impact on a person’s physical health or quality of life. However, dental health can be a problem area for many communities at large, due to subsequent inequality in accessing dental services.

Preventive dentistry focuses on diminishing the likelihood of getting certain diseases of the mouth like tooth decay, gum disease and other infections. The measures entail encouraging people to brush their teeth, apply fluorides, and organizing break-through and community health prevention programs. Cultural information again comes into play with education stressing the importance of diet, use of tobacco and regular brushing of teeth.

Another one is to improve the availability of the dental care, especially to the patients who have no good opportunities to get the necessary help. Programs such as mobile dentists which embrace clinics, school dental checks and even the dental health workers helps in reaching out to these people who might not easily access a dentist. Action force of public health dentistry employees cooperate with policymakers to promote the provision of relatively inexpensive dental care as a part of health care.

This field also responds to important questions, such as, diagnosis of oral cancer, dental health of elderly population, management of dental emergencies. On the other hand, through the strategy of promotion of prevention and access, public health dentistry reduces the future expenditures of uncompensated dental diseases and improves the health of groups of people.

As a result, there are objectives of equal access to instruments and materials for oral health maintenance regardless of someone’s ph, through these efforts public health dentistry tries to address inequalities in delivery of oral health care.