tools of dental public health

1. TOOLS OF DENTAL
PUBLIC HEALLTH
BY
ASHOK KUMAR A
FINAL YEAR BDS

2. DENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH
 DEFINITION :
“ The science and art of preventing and controlling
dental disease and promoting dental health through
organized community efforts .It is that form of dental
practice which serves the community as the patient
rather than the individual. It is concerned with the
dental health education of the public , with applied
dental research and with administration of group
dental care programs as well as the prevention and
control of dental disease on a community basis.”

3. TOOLS OF DENTAL
PUBLIC DENTAL HEALTH
- EPIDEMIOLOGY
- BIOSTATISTICS
- SOCIAL SCIENCES
- PRINCIPLES OF ADMINISTRATION
- PREVENTIVE DENTISTRY

4. EPIDEMIOLOGY

5. EPIDEMIOLOGY
EPIDEMIOLOGY EPIDEMIC
( EPI = among , DEMOS = people , LOGOS = study )
DEFINITION :
“ The study of the distribution and determinants of health
related-states or events in specified population and the
application of this study to the control of health problem.”

6. AIM :
To minimize or eradicate the disease
or health problem and its consequences
and to promote the well being of the
society as a whole.

7. BIOSTATISTICS

8. BIOSTATISTICS :
Biostatistics is that branch of statistics
concerned with mathematical facts and
data relating to biological events.
Medical statistics is a further specialty of
biostatistics , when the mathematical facts are
related to health and prevention of disease.

9. USES :
- To define normalcy.
- To test whether the difference between two population
regarding a particular attribute is real or a chance
occurrence.
- To study correlation between two or more attributes
in the same population.
- To evaluate the efficacy of vaccines, sera etc.
- To locate, define and measure the extent of morbidity
and mortality in the community.
- To evaluate the achievements of public health programs.
- To fix priorities in public health programs.

10. SOCIAL SCIENCE

11. SOCIAL SCIENCES :
The public health worker , when he embarks upon
organized community effort, is very dependent upon
the group behavior of individuals, determined by their
culture.
It is one of the important development in public
health that the social scientist have called in to aid in
adapting new health programs to existing cultural
patterns.

12. PRINCIPLES OF ADMINISTRATION :
- ORGANIZATION
- MANAGEMENT

13. ORGANISATION :
Deals with the structure of an
agency and the way people are
arranged into working groups
within it.

14. MANAGEMENT :
Handling of personnel and operation
in such a way that the work of the
agency gets done.

15. PREVENTIVE DENTISTRY

16. PREVENTIVE DENTISTRY :
PRIMARY PREVENTION – health
promotion(health education) , specific
protection(immunization,hygiene)
SECONDARY PREVENTION – early
diagnosis and prompt treatment.
TERTIARY PREVENTION – disease control
disability limitation , prevention to extent
that the sequelae and complication of
disease minimized

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