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What is the main focus of dental public health?
What is the main focus of dental public health?
- Providing individual dental care
- Preventing and controlling dental diseases (correct)
- Training dental professionals
- Conducting dental research
Which of the following is a common disease of the mouth mentioned in the text?
Which of the following is a common disease of the mouth mentioned in the text?
- Dental caries (correct)
- Common cold
- Influenza
- Tuberculosis
What is epidemiology concerned with?
What is epidemiology concerned with?
- Performing dental surgeries
- Developing new dental tools
- Distribution and determinants of health related events in population (correct)
- Diagnosing individual patients
What is biostatistics concerned with?
What is biostatistics concerned with?
Which of the following is a unique characteristic of dental diseases mentioned in the text?
Which of the following is a unique characteristic of dental diseases mentioned in the text?
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Dental Public Health
- The main focus of dental public health is the prevention of dental diseases and the promotion of oral health of populations.
Dental Diseases
- Caries is a common disease of the mouth.
Epidemiology
- Epidemiology is concerned with the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related events, diseases, or health-related characteristics among populations.
Biostatistics
- Biostatistics is concerned with the development and application of statistical principles to analyze health-related data.
Unique Characteristics of Dental Diseases
- Dental diseases have a unique characteristic of being largely preventable.
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