Introduction to Primary Preventive Dentistry (Harris Ch.1)
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1. The mission of dental care focuses on.. . .the ability to help individuals
achieve
an maintain maximum oral health throughout their lives
2. Who is the founder of dental hygiene and preventative dentistry?: Alfred
C. Fones
3. "the mouth is the show window in which the body displays its
physical wares.": -Alfred C. Fones
from the first college textbook on preventive dentistry
4. Health Disparities-: the marked difference in quality of health status
among populations; These disparities usually affect members of racial
and ethnic groups, lower-income populations, many who are
geographically isolated, and other who are vulnerable because of oral
health care needs.
5. Research has linked periodontal diseases to systemic diseases such as:
-
-cardiovascular diseases
-respiratory diseases
-diabetes
-cancer
-premature and low-birth-weight babies
-number of other systemic diseases.
6. Oral health affects....: overall health and well-being throughout life
7. The 'individual' is a multidirectional being who consists of five
dimensions:-
: -physical
-mental
-spiritual
-social
-emotional
8. The World Health Organization defines 'health' as -: the state if
complete physical, mental, and social well-being; not merely the
absence of disease of infirmity
9. If health is not describes as merely the absence of disease,
then becomes an essential component of health and its definition.:
Prevention!
10.Primary Prevention-: Uses strategies and agents to prevent the onset
of:
-prevent the onset of disease
-reverse the progress of disease
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, Introduction to Primary Preventive Dentistry (Harris Ch.1)
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-arrest the disease process before secondary preventive treatment
becomes nec- essary.
*This level is sometimes thought of as dental hygiene
11.Secondary Prevention-: Uses routine treatment methods to
terminate a dis- ease process and/or restore tissues to as nearly
normal as possible.
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Study online at https://quizlet.com/_85hnz3
1. The mission of dental care focuses on.. . .the ability to help individuals
achieve
an maintain maximum oral health throughout their lives
2. Who is the founder of dental hygiene and preventative dentistry?: Alfred
C. Fones
3. "the mouth is the show window in which the body displays its
physical wares.": -Alfred C. Fones
from the first college textbook on preventive dentistry
4. Health Disparities-: the marked difference in quality of health status
among populations; These disparities usually affect members of racial
and ethnic groups, lower-income populations, many who are
geographically isolated, and other who are vulnerable because of oral
health care needs.
5. Research has linked periodontal diseases to systemic diseases such as:
-
-cardiovascular diseases
-respiratory diseases
-diabetes
-cancer
-premature and low-birth-weight babies
-number of other systemic diseases.
6. Oral health affects....: overall health and well-being throughout life
7. The 'individual' is a multidirectional being who consists of five
dimensions:-
: -physical
-mental
-spiritual
-social
-emotional
8. The World Health Organization defines 'health' as -: the state if
complete physical, mental, and social well-being; not merely the
absence of disease of infirmity
9. If health is not describes as merely the absence of disease,
then becomes an essential component of health and its definition.:
Prevention!
10.Primary Prevention-: Uses strategies and agents to prevent the onset
of:
-prevent the onset of disease
-reverse the progress of disease
1
, Introduction to Primary Preventive Dentistry (Harris Ch.1)
Study online at https://quizlet.com/_85hnz3
-arrest the disease process before secondary preventive treatment
becomes nec- essary.
*This level is sometimes thought of as dental hygiene
11.Secondary Prevention-: Uses routine treatment methods to
terminate a dis- ease process and/or restore tissues to as nearly
normal as possible.
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