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Dentistry and Public Health
There seems to be a lot more to prevent teeth decay than what is known. Even with oral hygiene and dentistry, tooth decay is still the most common phenomena linked to obesity, heart disease and diabetes.
This is where public health comes in and is linked to dentistry. Public Health is composed of at least 3 factors:
The first is germs where a dentist needs to be aware of the prevalence of germs in his own instruments and environment and the necessity of preventing and controlling these germs.
The second concern is fluoridation of water. Much tap water is not fluourized and commercial mouthwashes too may have ingredients that may cause oral cancer. The public health dentist is aware of these
Finally, dental sealant's applied to biting edge of teeth is another way that dentists can prevent oral decay
Body
Oral health predates dentistry since everyone has at least one oral disease and many of these are unknown and may exist even before the patient reaches the dentist chair. Some of these are carried through the dentist...
Germs
Hygiene in all aspects of the dental work is excruciatingly important. Germs can get passed around through deficient dental hygiene too -- through the work that that dentist does, through what he touches, through patients transmitting their germs to another simply because dentist fails to take optimum preventions. One of the instances may be patient drinking the same water that another drinks, both touching the side of basin whilst so doing. Another may be the dentist insufficiently cleaning his instruments, or not changing gloves between uses. Each and everything must be scrupulously scrubbed between patients. This aspect of dental hygiene is insufficiently known. I think that we should be more aware of it.
2. Fluidized water
More than 100 million Americans live in communities where there is no fluorized water. This too results in teeth…
Sources
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/oh/flfactcwf2.htm
Supertoothndk.org. Supertooth and Good Food Friends -- Home.
http://www.supertoothndk.org/
http://www.nidr.nih.gov/news/CONSENSUS/Jane_Weintraub.pdf
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