This document discusses dental public health. It defines public health as preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health through organized community efforts like sanitation, infection control, and education. Dental public health practitioners work to implement health policies and programs, conduct research, and promote oral health prevention and disease control. Their goals are to put policies in place, oversee research, and promote prevention. Common oral diseases include dental caries, periodontal disease, and oral cancer. Dental disease impacts public health because it is universally prevalent, does not remit without treatment, and requires technical, expensive, and time-consuming professional treatment. The tools of dental public health practitioners include epidemiology, biostatistics, social sciences, administration principles

1. DR. NOORAH MURAD
COMMUNITY DENTISTRY
LECTURE 1
DENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH

2. LECTURE 1 : DENTAL PUBLIC
HEALTH
COMMUNITY DENTISTRY

8. PUBLIC HEALTH
WHO define public health
As the science and art of
Preventing disease
Prolonging life
Promoting health care (3Ps)
Through Organized community effort by
Sanitation of the environment
Control infections
Education about personal hygiene

10. DENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH
PRACTITIONER
There objectives are:
1. Putting health policy programs
2. Do research methods and see
their implementation
3. Oral health promotion to prevent
and control disease
4. Proper work of the health
system

11. MOST COMMON ORAL
DISEASES
•Dental caries
•Periodontal disease
•Oral cancer, developmental
anomalies, acquired disorders.

12. WHY DENTAL DISEASE
HAS IMPACT ON PUBLIC
HEALTH?

13. 3 REASONS
1. Universal prevalence.
2. Do not undergo remission or
termination if left untreated.
3. Required technical demand,
expensive, and time consuming
prof. treatment.

14. TOOLS OF DENTAL
PUBLIC HEALTH
PRACTITIONERS

15. Epidemiology
Biostatistics
Social sciences
Principles of administration
Preventive dentistry

18. BIOSTATISTICS
Method of
Collecting
Organizing
Analyzing
Tabulating
Data
relating to a living organism or
biological event

22. PRINCIPLES OF ADMINISTRATION
I. Organization: deals with structure of
an agency and arrange the people in
to working groups
II. Management: handling the operations
to get the job done

24. PREVENTIVE DENTISTRY
LEVELS
• Primary prevention : remove etiology
fluoridation, fissure sealants
• Secondary prevention : early diagnosis
(pathogenic prevention)
periodontics, orthodontics, oral surgery.
• Tertiary prevention : reduce or limit
impairments and disabilities, (post
pathogenic) prosthodontics, implants.