Preventive and communal dentistry Department of General and

Preventive and communal dentistry Department of General and Clinical Dentistry Ass. Gvozdikova Evgeniya Nikolaevna Head of Department is Avanesov Anatoliy Mihailovich

The history of the development of the specialty "Dentistry" linked begin at the Medical Faculty in 1975 Professor Dmitrieva Valentina Stanislavovna.

Prevention- system of government, social, hygienic, medical measures aimed at ensuring a high level of health and disease warning.

Professor, Doctor of Medical Sciences , head of the department of prevention of dental diseases, Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Dentistry Kuzmina Edit Minasovna Professor of Petersburg Medical Univercity Ulitovsky Sergey Borisovich

Modern prevention includes the following sections:

Remediation of the oral cavity

Supply rationalization

Improving the function of the masticatory apparatus

Increased resistance to tooth decay agents of local and general action

Personal hygiene

Sanitary health education

age groups according to the WHO 5 -6 years 12 years 15 years 19 -21 years 35 -44 years

prevention of dental diseases primary secondary tertiary

Primary prevention- system of medical, social and educational measures aimed at preventing disease by addressing the causes and conditions of their emergence and development as well as to increase the body's resistance to adverse environmental factors.

Secondary prevention - a set of measures to prevent or weakening of the pathological process.

Tertiary prevention – a set of measures aimed at restoring the lost functions.

Prevention activities:

State - measures implemented across the country or individual regions

Mass - fluoridation of water and food, sanitary and educational activities, hygiene education and training, issue of hygiene and preventive medicines for dentistry

Social - implemented at the local level: funding for preventive work, the organization of the material base.

Medical - measures related to the organization, content and implementation of sanitary education, hygiene education and training, the choice of methods and forms of drug prevention.

Individual preventive events- consider features of the growth and development of the individual, age, sex, state of dentition. Individual prevention is assigned a doctor, is the highest level of prevention.

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