Oral Health And Oral Health

Oral health is a key component of overall health and wellbeing. Good oral health affects quality of life by enabling individuals to enjoy eating a variety of food, increases self-esteem and social confidence(Locker, 1988). To date, the prevalence of oral disease remain significantly high among individuals and societies (Watt, 2005). Poor oral health as well as general health is more common with individuals who are relatively deprived and living in disadvantage areas, with many determinants of health such as such as poverty, poor housing, access to food and access to services(Locker, 2000).

Oral health disease such as dental caries has a significant impact on children; over 90% of caries is untreated in developing and developed countries. In the UK, 96% of decayed teeth in five-years-olds was untreated in some health districts(Pitts et al., 2007). Untreated dental caries with associated infection and pain can lead to discomfort and reduce food intake because it is painful. Sever dental caries affect children quality of life and also disturbed sleep may affect glucosteroid production and thereby growth(Sheiham, 2006).

Effective public health approaches are surely required to prevent oral diseases and promote oral health across the population (Watt, 2005). This document is aim to plan a strategic process to improve oral health of preschool children age 0-5 living within Crene City. Significant elements of this strategy is link to the commissioning of primary dental care provision, activity taking place in community settings and working with a broader range of key agents. While prevention is a key, provision of high quality accessible dental services is also fundamental. The tackling of oral health is complex and inextricably bound ...

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...y survey on preschool children 0-5 who has no more than one decayed tooth.

2- Oral health education, number of oral health parenting sessions provided, and uptake, number of patient use helpline for information.

3- Evidence based prevention, Number of settings using the toolkit.

4- Accessibility to dental service, this can be evaluated by number of patient unable to access to service or increase number of new dental contract in the town.

5- Working with partnerships, number of the authorities involve in the programme.

6- Proportionate increase in the purchasing healthy foods locally

Outcomes evaluation:-

It is aim to assess the quality and delivery of implementations, this can be done through log model.

Children attending primary dental care who are decay free, changes to dental decay levels and prevalence in children through dental epidemiological surveys