what does dental public health  mean ?
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Public health covers a lot of territory. This includes things like large-scale epidemics and bioterror threats, vaccination campaigns, safety-net health care providers, restaurant inspections and so forth.\n\nThere is public health dentistry. Their focus is to improve the health of the people through ensuring that people have healthy teeth. \n\nWhat's the big deal with teeth? Well, having a healthy mouth is not only pleasing to the eye (in the way of a nice smile), it can also prevent heart disease (infections that cause endocarditis). Unhealthy teeth hurt, and that can lead to losses in productivity and school absences. Unhealthy teeth can result in malnutrition (if you can't eat because your teeth hurt). Public health dentists provide a valuable service by offering clinics to the indigent (who would otherwise never see a dentist). Regular checkups reduce the incidence of oral cancer, too. that's definitely good for the public's health.\n\nI hope that covers it.
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That sounds like something the Dentist gives before doing work in your mouth.
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you could simply call a dentists office, or try calling their dept or ministry of health, good luck
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each person is different, but common cause will be not taking proper care of teeth ... some food ingredients will also cause it ( ideally brushing is recommended after every meal)
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It's all about what you eat. Read the following:\n\nIntroduction\nMeyer M. Silverman practiced dentistry in the city of Washington, DC for almost 50 years. He was well acquainted with the work of Weston A. Price, Sir Robert McCarrison and Francis Pottenger. As a GI in Europe, he observed the effects of starvation on people's teeth, and was appalled to find the same patterns of decay and bone loss among well-fed Americans. He staunchly opposed pasteurization and went to great lengths to obtain raw milk from a farmer in New York who sent it down to Washington on the Greyhound bus. This article was reprinted from the Journal of the District of Columbia Dental Society, March 1971.\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nTeeth and Bone Hardness in Diagnosis and Prevention of Premature Aging\nBy Meyer M. Silverman, DDS. \nThe dentist is in a position to determine whether a person is prematurely aging by the degree of teeth and bone hardness. this factor can help determine whether an individual is well-constructed; it can also be a method of diagnosing how well-built an individual may be. Teeth and bone hardness can be a helpful diagnostic aid in predictive medicine,1 and it can also be one of many factors used to determine the rate of aging.\n\nWhile cutting tooth structure with low speed apparatus and chiseling bone during oral surgical operations it is possible mechanically to "feel" how hard or soft the teeth and bone are, and to determine the physical health of the human being. This mechanical feel of the tissues is similar to rubbing fabrics between the fingers to determine the quality of the material. The dentist is probably the only one in a healing profession who can literally cut into the tissues he is treating to determine the quality of the human animal. \n\nTeeth and bone hardness can be a control in developing and testing the effect of nutrition on laboratory animals and to study how to increase the longevity of adult human beings toward the 100 year mark with a minimum of illness. \n\nOBSERVATIONS\nI have noted while cutting teeth during operative procedures, and chiseling bone during surgical removal of teeth, that some patients had teeth and bone that seemed as hard as rock. Other patients had teeth and bone that were very soft or with variations between these two extremes. Why should there have been such differences in the character of these hard tissues of the body? The old adage that "we are what we eat" has been found to be the determining factor in the hardness of these oral tissues, and in the aging of the individual.\n\nThroughout the years, when extremes between the hard and soft tissue of patients were noted, the patients were asked about the types of food they had eaten from infancy up to their present ages, as well as questions concerning their general health and history. Generally, those with hard teeth and bones were strongly built and in their youth were participants in different forms of athletics. They were more often born and raised on farms, but also in large cities or small towns where they ate fresh-cooked and raw foods that were freshly obtained from the farm or the garden. They generally started out in life breast-fed and not bottle-fed. The milk consumed in childhood was, without exception, raw and not pasteurized. These people were generally in excellent health. When asked if any of their family or friends with similar diets ever had a heart attack in their early forties or fifties, or died young from any other causes, they would think back and say that their parents, grandparents or others in their family lived to old age—into their eighties and nineties—in good health. They also had many or all of their teeth. \n\nPeople with strongly built teeth and bone are being lost from our modern civilization in the United States of America. Their children have softer dentitions, and their grandchildren and great grandchil
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Could have mouth cancer.\n\nCoach
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Worry about the drunk in the other lane.\nWorry about washing your hands during cold & flu season.\nWorry about how much trans fat your eating.\nWorry about leaving our kids a world where Christians and Muslims can't get along.\nBut don't worry about the increased chance of an infection from a filled (or unfilled tooth). Get a good dentist, get second opinions on major work, and if you must worry, worry about one of the first four items.
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Nothing really. It does indicate that you may have an iron deficiency. We call it pica. \n\nBe careful that you don't damage your teeth.
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the disease dental caries is a dynamic process taking place in the microbial deposits( dental plaque on the tooth surface ) which results in a disturbance of the equilibrium between the toooth substance and the surrounding plaque fluid so that, over time , the net result is a loss of mineral from the tooth surface
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Adding flouride to water systems is done in order to reduce the number if children and adults who experience tooth decay. But there is a debate about the safety of such measures for instance there are claims that it increases them risk of cancer. \nFluoridation: Benefits vs. Risks\nby Mark Bornfeld, DDS\n\nSince the early 20th century, the town of Hereford, in Deaf Smith County, Texas, was known as "the town without a toothache". Public health officials searched for a reason why this town had rates of dental decay that were significantly lower than average. It took nearly 12 years (from 1933 to 1945) for researchers to conclude through epidemiologic studies that it was the high naturally occurring levels of fluoride in its water that was responsible for this salutary effect on the residents of this town. On January 25, 1945, Grand Rapids, Michigan became the first city to intentionally introduce fluoride to its public water supply. Since that time, fluoridation of drinking water has become acknowledged by the Centers for Disease Control as one of the ten greatest public health accomplishments (see CDC / MMWR Report: Ten Great Public Health Achievements – United States, 1900-1999 at http://fluoride.oralhealth.org/papers/00056796.htm) Almost from the time of its introduction, however, the use of fluoride, especially in public water supplies, has been a topic of controversy. \n\nDespite some dissension on this issue by non-dentists (and a minority of dentists), most researchers believe the literature supports the purported benefits of the use of fluoride as a public health measure. (Not a scientific fact but an empirical observation: during the years that I maintained a practice in Lindenhurst, a small village in Long Island with demographics similar to those of my current practice in Brooklyn, I noticed an incidence of dental decay MANY orders of magnitude greater than that encountered in Brooklyn. The only factor which I could see to account for this difference was that Brooklyn was fluoridated and Lindenhurst was not.) I remain convinced of the value of fluoridation.\n\nFluoride can be applied to teeth in one of two ways: \nby application to the surface of the teeth (topically) through the use of fluoride-containing toothpastes, rinses, or professionally applied fluoride treatments, or \nsystemically, through fluoridation of drinking water or fluoride dietary supplementation. \nThe systemic application of fluoride is thought to benefit children whose teeth are still in the process of formation, because the fluoride introduced into the body can still be incorporated into the structure of the teeth. Since tooth enamel formation is generally completed by age 14 or 15, systemic fluoride is not thought to confer any benefit for those above this age. \n\nIn either method of application, fluoride becomes a part of the enamel structure. The main inorganic structural element of enamel, hydroxyapatite, becomes fluorinated: i.e., fluoride becomes an intrinsic part of its crystalline structure. This is postulated to combat decay by a combination of three possible mechanisms: \n\nEnamel becomes more resistant to softening by acid from decay-forming bacteria; \nEnamel develops an anti-bacterial quality, inhibiting growth of decay-forming bacteria; or \nEnamel develops a smoother surface that resists the accumulation of decay-forming bacterial plaque. \nRegardless of the mechanism or the efficacy of water fluoridation, its implementation required some assurance of safety, and therein lies the root of the controversy. Even before Jack D. Ripper declared (in the Stanley Kubrick movie Dr. Strangelove, 1964) that fluoridation was a "Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids", fluoridation ran into heavy opposition, and still does. Beyond the paranoia of the conspiracy theorists, there are legitimate questions that must be addressed, as they must for every therapeutic measure: do the benefits
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dental dams are pieces of a rubber like substance that is inserted into the mouth to help prevent bacteria or wetness into the section of the mouth while the dentist works.  they can also be used for oral sex; they sell flavored dental dams in adult stores.  you don't have to put them in your mouth for oral sex just over the area you intent to lick.
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a healthier teeth is not really white.. its light yellow and more yellowish near the gum.. the tip of the teeth may be whiter.. brush ur teeth daily twice, in the morning and bfore going to sleep.. wash ur mouth after having anything except water.. these can be done for a healthy teeth..
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Check out this site:\nhttp://www.adha.org/oralhealth/
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Public Health deals more with people, community and diseases. It prepares you to work for government organizations, non-profit organizations, hospitals, clinics, etc. I don't believe this may be as challenging as your Biomedical Engineering program, but you will have to work with people (not molecules) and this definitely could be challenging. Do you have a strong interest in this field? Do you want to make a change in your community? Do you like to work with people? If the answer is yes, then go for it.
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what do you mean by "dental" camp?
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Bleeding generally means gum disease.  Flossing should help, but it does take time.  Before he does anything else, have him see his dentist.  He may have periodontal disease.  Not fatal, but not good either.
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Plaque is just a general term for something that builds up on something else. Plaque in your mouth is built up bacteria and other fun stuff. Plaque in your arteries is fat that has built up on the side of your arteries.