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Oral Health Promotion Through Schools


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1 Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
2 Department of Public Health Dentistry, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
3 Department of Prosthodontics Crown Bridge and Implantology, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
     

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A combined education, promotion, and preventive program in the school would enormously diminish the predominance of prevalent oral diseases like dental caries and gingivitis seen in children and young adolescents. Comprehensive school programs also would preclude the loss of study time due to pain and apprehension before and after treatment. Need of the hour is to develop the best projects for promoting oral wellbeing in schools with emphasis on school-based facilities. The essential objective of school oral health promotion programs centers around the 3 M’s-manpower, money, material, in addition to the amount of classroom time it will take from conventional classroom education.
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Authors

Upasana Dhar
Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
Ramesh Nagarajappa
Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
Dharmashree Satyarup
Department of Public Health Dentistry, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
Marlin Jena
Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
Abhilash Mohapatra
Department of Prosthodontics Crown Bridge and Implantology, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

Abstract


A combined education, promotion, and preventive program in the school would enormously diminish the predominance of prevalent oral diseases like dental caries and gingivitis seen in children and young adolescents. Comprehensive school programs also would preclude the loss of study time due to pain and apprehension before and after treatment. Need of the hour is to develop the best projects for promoting oral wellbeing in schools with emphasis on school-based facilities. The essential objective of school oral health promotion programs centers around the 3 M’s-manpower, money, material, in addition to the amount of classroom time it will take from conventional classroom education.