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Community & Preventive Dentistry Division
 The Community & Preventive Dentistry Division focuses on oral health promotion, prevention of dental caries and epidemiology in general. The oral health promotion programme comprises individual and school-based community activities of health behaviour and education, including: diet, oral hygiene, antimicrobial therapy, fluoride and anti-tobacco priority actions. Caries epidemiological information of all children within the county, nearly 50,000 from 3-19 years of ages is recorded annually on a computer-base. Additionally, about 10,000 young adults are included in a database for caries and periodontal
recordings.
Extensive education programmes for the dental team involve community oral health promotion and individual and collective caries-prevention programs using antibacterial and fluoride treatments. Research activities are focused on
caries preventive methods for children, adults and the elderly. Those activities comprise clinical approaches of new caries diagnostic tools, oral pharmaceuticals in caries prevention and epidemiology combined with health economic evaluation within national and international projects. The clinical approach is concentrated on prevention and on the treatment of adults with severe and rare caries
diseases.
Oral Health Promotion programmes are developed and
implemented under the guidance of EADPH (European Association of
Public Dental Health (www.eadph.com)
Evidence based denstistry is developed within the
organization of the Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in
Health Care (www. sbu.se)
Development and Trends of Oral Health
Epidemiology
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