Robert Yee, Director or oral health (http://www.dentaid.org/) and convener of CHGN's oral health topic pages writes: THE PROBLEM: Untreated dental caries (tooth decay) remains a major problem globally. While dental caries has declined in many countries, the problem still persists among the poor and disadvantaged groups in developed and developing countries. For example, by the age of 3 years, 60% of children from deprived communities in Scotland suffer from dental caries. Dental caries has a significant and often underestimated impact on the health and well-being of individuals and communities. The effects of untreated dental caries are not only pain and suffering, but range from having a negative impact on child growth and development, their quality of life, missed education opportunities, personal finances, public health budgets to loss of work time for parents.
AN EFFECTIVE SOLUTION :
The use of fluoride is an essential and basic public health strategy in the prevention and control of dental caries. Experts say that the decline of dental caries in most high-income countries over the last three decades has been brought about by the widespread use of fluoride toothpaste. This is supported by a large number of sound clinical studies which show that fluoride is effective and safe. However, this simple preventive product is not available across the whole world. What is your experience? Can you estimate what proportion of children suffer from tooth decay in your community? Is fluoride toothpaste available? Do community people know it is good for their teeth? Could local churches take a role in promoting oral health? Please share your experience and ideas either by replying to this email or by contributing to our oral health discussion forum on www.chgn.org
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