Community Dental Health

cover art

Cover Date:
June 2016
Print ISSN:
0265 539X
Vol:
33
Issue:
2

Editorial - Prevention of dental caries through the use of fluoride – the WHO approach

Dental caries continues to pose an important public health problem across the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes that the disease affects about 60–90% of schoolchildren, the vast majority of adults and that dental caries contributes to an extensive loss of natural teeth in older people globally (Petersen, 2008a; WHO, 2016). Meanwhile, in most westernized high income countries, an improvement in dental health has taken place over the past three decades in parallel with the introduction of prevention-oriented oral health systems. A decline in the prevalence and the severity of dental caries is particularly observed in countries having established public health programmes using fluoride for dental caries prevention, coupled with changing living conditions, healthier lifestyles, and improved self-care practices.

doi:10.1922/CDH_Petersen03

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Page Start
66
Page End
68
Authors
Poul Erik Petersen, Hiroshi Ogawa

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  1. The mouth as a site of structural inequalities; an introduction
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  1. Inequalities in oral health: the role of sociology
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  1. The mouth as a site of structural inequalities; the experience of Aboriginal Australians
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  1. Overcoming structural inequalities in oral health: the role of dental curricula
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