Community Dentistry is a branch of Dentistry which deals with preventing disease, prolonging life & promoting physical & mental efficiency through organized community efforts for the sanitation of the environment, the control of communicable infections, the education of individual in personal hygiene, the organization of medical & nursing services for the early diagnosis & preventive treatment of disease and the development of the social machinery to ensure everyone a standard of living adequate for the maintenance of the health. It is department that believes in “Prevention is better than cure". Emphasis on this is increased by spreading this message to masses by means of well-organized school and Community Dental Health education programmes |
PUBLIC HEALTH DENTISTRY MUSEUM |