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1. ROLE OF COMMUNITY
DENTISTRY IN
ORTHODONTIA
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2. INTRODUCTION
• WHAT IS COMMUNITY DENTISTRY ?
• COMMUNITY : An area of social living
marked by some degree of social coherence.
• COMMUNITY HEALTH:Encompasses the
full range of health services,environmental
and personal as it affects the community
and to restore the health and quality of life
of the people.
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3. • DENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH:The science
and art of preventing and controlling Dental
disease and promoting Dental health
through organised community efforts.
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4. • Milestones in Dental Public Health:
@ 1000 BC :Shushrata Samhita gives a
discription of severe periodontal disease.
@1500 BC :Records of dental treatment
found in Egypt.
@ 3000 BC: Gold tooth picks found in
Mesopotamia.
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5. • Middle Civilization:Dietary prohibitions
introduced by the Arabs.
• 16th Century:Barber Dentists were sent
from England to US
• 19th Century:transition from Craftsmen to
Professionalism.
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6. • Procedures in Community Health Service.
1.Survey
2.Analysis
3.Program planning
4.Program operation
5.Financing
6.Program appraisal.
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7. • Health Education
• Aims
• Dental Health Eduction
• Objectives & Scope
•
Meenakshi:Meenakshi:
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8. • Malocclusion
• Prevalance
• Etiology
• Measurement of Malocclusion
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9. • Preventive & Interceptive Orthodontics
Procedures include -
1.Parent Education
2. Caries control
3. Care of Decidous Dentition
4. Management of ankylosed
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10. 5.Maintainence of shedding table
6.Checkup for oral habits
7.Occlusal equilibrium
8.Extraction of supernumerary teeth
9.Space maintainance
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11. 10.Management of
@Deeply of deeply locked first
permament molars.
@Abnormal frenal attachments
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12. • Interceptive Orthodontics
Includes
*Serial extraction
*Correction of developing crossbite
*Control of abnormal habits
*Space regaining
*Diastema closure
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13. *Muscle exercises
*Interception of skeletal malrelation
*Removal of soft tissue /bony barrier
to eruption of teeth
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