TY  - CHAP
AU  - José Roberto de Magalhães Bastos
AU  - Magali de Lourdes Caldana
AU  - Luis Marcelo Aranha Camargo
AU  - Ariadnes Nobrega Oliveira
AU  - Ricardo Pianta Rodrigues da Silva
AU  - Angela Xavier
AU  - Fábio Silva de Carvalho
AU  - Roosevelt da Silva Bastos
ED  - Mandeep Singh Virdi
Y1  - 2012-02-29
PY  - 2012
T1  - Towards Oral Health Promotion
N2  - Oral health care in pediatric dentistry deals with complete oral health, including preventive aspects for children right from their conception to adolescence, encompassing all the spheres of dentistry including various specialties. It also includes planning a preventive program at individual and community levels. The current research interests in oral health care include studies regarding the role of stem cells, tissue culture, and other ground-breaking technologies available to the scientific community in addition to traditional fields such as anatomy, physiology, and pharmaceuticals etc of the oral cavity. Public health and epidemiology in oral health care is about the monitoring of the general oral health of a community, general afflictions they are suffering from, and an overall approach for care and correction of the same. The oral health care-giver undertakes evaluation of conditions affecting individuals for infections, developmental anomalies, habits, etc. and provides corrective action in clinical conditions. The present work is a compendium of articles by internationally renowned and reputed specialists about the current developments in various fields of oral health care.
BT  - Oral Health Care
SP  - Ch. 12
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5772/34076
DO  - 10.5772/34076
SN  - 
PB  - IntechOpen
CY  - Rijeka
Y2  - 2024-04-24
ER  -