New definitions of oral health provide an opportunity to change mindsets and promote innovation to tackle high levels of unmet needs, but this will only be realised with a radical change in practice, argue Julian Fisher and colleagues More than 3.5 billion people globally suffer from the main oral diseases. These conditions combined have an estimated global prevalence of 45%—higher than any other non-communicable disease.1 A major barrier to improving this situation is our approach to oral health. The prevailing mindset is that oral health is synonymous with dentistry and that poor oral health has little impact on personal and societal health and wellbeing. We need to shift away from the idea that the prevention and control of certain oral diseases equates to overall oral health and instead move to a broader and more inclusive understanding. Expanded …

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口腔健康的新方法可以带来更健康的社会

朱利安·费舍尔 (Julian Fisher) 及其同事认为，口腔健康的新定义提供了改变思维方式和促进创新的机会，以解决大量未满足的需求，但这只有在实践中进行根本性改变才能实现。 全球有超过 35 亿人患有口腔健康问题。口腔疾病。这些疾病的全球患病率估计为 45%，高于任何其他非传染性疾病。1 改善这种情况的一个主要障碍是我们的口腔健康方法。人们普遍的观念是，口腔健康就是牙科的代名词，口腔健康状况不佳对个人和社会的健康和福祉几乎没有影响。我们需要转变观念，即某些口腔疾病的预防和控制等同于整体口腔健康，而是转向更广泛、更具包容性的理解。扩大…