1Post Graduate Trainee, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
2Professor and Head, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
3Professor, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
4Professor, Department of Prosthodontics Crown Bridge and Implantology, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
*Corresponding Author: Dr. Ramesh Nagarajappa, Professor and Head, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha ‘O ’Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, e-mail: rameshpcd@yahoo.co.in
Online published on 27 March, 2020.
A combined education, promotion, and preventive program in the school would enormously diminish the predominance of prevalent oral diseases like dental caries and gingivitis seen in children and young adolescents. Comprehensive school programs also would preclude the loss of study time due to pain and apprehension before and after treatment. Need of the hour is to develop the best projects for promoting oral wellbeing in schools with emphasis on school-based facilities. The essential objective of school oral health promotion programs centers around the 3 M's‑manpower, money, material, in addition to the amount of classroom time it will take from conventional classroom education.
Health education, oral hygiene, oral health, school children, school health programs
