Medicine is a word that has a strong association with public health. SRM Kattankulathur Dental College and Hospital has a specialized department of public health dentistry that deals with public dental health.

Here let’s gather more information and widen our knowledge on the impact of public health dentistry from prevention to care.

Why do you think? Public Health Dentistry is more attractive than other fields.

The main objective of the Department of Public Health Dentistry is to serve the betterment of oral health for people across the world. Traditional dentistry is where it mainly focuses on the individual patient and care but public health dentistry is inversely proportional, it cares for the whole community with all the efforts in promoting, controlling, and preventing oral health problems – making sure that the dental benefits are accessible to everyone.

It’s time to dive into the importance of public health dentistry

Public Health Dentistry always prioritizes prevention over treatment it FOCUSES ON THE IDENTIFICATION OF DISEASES and finds treatments and all available methods to heal oral health disorders. Prevention is the best cost-effective solution in the long run of tooth decay.

As we saw over the brief public health dentistry cares for the community and not only for a particular individual, they focus on ACCESS TO CARE especially low-income families and rural populations.

Not only focusing on Prevention and Controlling, they also provide EDUCATIONAL AWARENESS to the public emphasizing the importance of oral health by conducting many awareness campaigns in schools, public areas, and more places, in addition to awareness programs, they conduct health camps in periodic intervals for frequent dental checkups. This is one of the best solutions that creates a better understanding of public health dentistry for the people.

Last but not least, public health dentistry comprises a research team within the department that creates public health policies and practices to keep the public informed. MONITORING AND PLANNING are more important as consistent effort makes a greater difference. In addition to this, they focus on the effectiveness of public health interventions and provide more strategies to improve public health by providing the appropriate evidence.

Hope, you understand the importance of Public Health Dentistry – keep connected with us a little more to know;

Moving on to the key strategies that the public needs to follow to maintain better oral health:

Always begin with prevention. The first step is community water fluoridation; monitoring the quantity of fluoride in drinking water can help prevent cavities. This is one of the most cost-effective methods for preventing oral cavities.

Continuing this, educating future generations is necessary as this can create more awareness than ever, concentrating on this, schools-based dental programs can offer better preventive services such as fluoride treatments, dental sealants, and oral hygiene instruction. Practicing from the early stage can become a habit later on.

Connecting to real-world technology, SRM Kattankulathur Dental College and Hospital has a Mobile Dental Clinics to provide dental services directly to the rural areas spreading awareness and support to wider arenas. This Mobile Dental Clinic offers screening, preventive care, primary treatment, and first-aid dental care to everyone.

Finally, in terms of oral health policy advocacy, public health dentistry pushes for more funding for dental-related public health programs.

Concluding this blog,

The pivotal role of the Department of Public Health Dentistry is to address the oral health issues among the communities. By creating awareness in the public by educating them, and providing solutions on oral health and how it impacts overall health. This behavior of public health dentistry paves the way for maintaining good oral health.

For those who are interested in assisting their communities, At SRM Kattankulathur Dental College and Hospital, the public health dentistry department prepares undergraduate students to serve their surroundings.

To serve the community means serving humanity.

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