Defined as ‘a standard of health of the oral and related tissues which enables an individual to eat, speak and socialize without active disease, discomfort or embarrassment and which contributes to the general well being.
Current Practise Of Oral Health Care
Very little attention.
Low in list of priorities of health problems.
Haphazard growth in terms of articulate organization and management.
Majority of both public and private services located in urban areas.
90% of population have no contact with any modern form of oral health care.
Majority of patients present with late stages of oral diseases.
Poor prognosis and expensive to treat.
Oral health not in primary level of health care in the country.
Dentist population ratio 1: 100,000
Oral health manpower in all categories among the poorest in the world.
