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"Oral health has a significant impact on the quality of life, appearance, and self-esteem of the people. Preventive dental visits help in the early detection and treatment of oral diseases. Dental care utilization can be defined as the percentage of the population who access dental services over a specified period of time. There are reports that dental patients only visit the dentist when in pain and never bother to return for follow-up in most cases. To improve oral health outcomes an adequate knowledge of the way the individuals use health services and the factors predictive of this behavior is essential. The interest in developing models explaining the utilization of dental services has increased; issues like dental anxiety, price, income, the distance a person had to travel to get care, and preference for preservation of teeth are treated as barriers in regular dental care. Published materials which pertain to the use of dental services by Indian population have been reviewed and analyzed in depth in the present study. Dental surgeons and dental health workers have to play an adequate role in facilitating public enlightenment that people may appreciate the need for regular dental care and make adequate and proper use of the available dental care facilities.
Oral health is a critical but an overlooked component of overall health and well-being among children and adults. Oral health problems such as dental caries, periodontitis, and oral cancers are a global health problem in both industrialized and especially in developing countries. Dental disease restricts activities in school, work, and home and often significantly diminishes the quality of life for many children and adults, especially those who are low-income or uninsured. Huge differences exist in health status including oral health between urban and rural population in India and other developing countries.[1] Although there have been impressive advances in both dental technology and in the scientific understanding of oral diseases, significant disparities remain in both the rates of dental disease and access to dental care among sub-groups of the population.
Dental disease is a serious public health problem with universal distribution and affecting all age groups. However, despite this universal distribution, only a few seek dental care. Thus a wide gap is created between the actual dental needs of the population and the demand for dental care which is quite understandable from the cited literature. In India, people encounter various obstacles in utilization of dental services. These barriers can be removed by motivating people and making them aware about the oral health problems that remove anxiety and fear so that they develop positive attitude towards dental treatment. It is suggested that mobile dental clinics, dental camps, and dental outreach programs could be solutions to spread awareness and disseminate treatment. There is a need for reasonably priced, rural oral health centers to make dental care available to rural strata of the population. Unmet treatment needs of the people belonging to lower class should be addressed during conduction of dental programs. School-based screening and motivation programs significantly improve the percentage of children who seek free dental treatment at a dental school.[29] These programs can also target lifestyles and needs of the school children.
Studies regarding the utilization dental services by north-east Indian population are almost non-existent. Therefore it is the responsibility of the health sector to gather data on the utilization of dental services by people residing in this part of the country. Information about the population's use of dental services is both necessary and useful as the dental sector experiences the impact of changing forces which influence the number of people who visit the dentist and the type of services they consume. When such information is available, it can help dentists and planners more toward more optimal distributions of manpower and money. In its absence, resources are less likely to be allocated to uses where they produce the greatest amount of additional benefits. All of this info and more can be found at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3783767/"
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