Is Our Dental Education Conducive for Primary Prevention?

Abstract

Background: In a country like India, with limited resources and skilled manpower, the most feasible and cost effective method of controlling oral diseases should be preventive based, either in the form of information dissemination or specific protective measures. But the curriculum of our dental education does not train students in practicing or applying primary prevention, which remains the need of the hour. This review aims to emphasise the importance of primary prevention when compared to curative dentistry.

Keywords

• Curriculum
• dental diseases
• dental education
• preventive dentistry.