Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry, Sardar Patel Post Graduate Institute of Dental and Medical Sciences, Lucknow.
For an individual to survive in the nature, health is the primary requirement. This health has many determinants, one of which is sound health behaviour, which if modified to a positive path can assist in acquiring a sound health. The new widely accepted theory to modify this health behaviour to achieve sound health is Life Course Analysis which states that the stock of biological resources inherited and acquired during earlier stages of life will determine current and future health potential including resilience to challenge. Many authors have studied this newly emerging concept in relation to the oral diseases like dental caries, periodontal ligament diseases, traumatic dental injuries and oral cancer which conclude that there is positive relation between the life course events of an individual and his/her oral as well as general health.
