Epidemiology Pattern of Oral Diseases

From Accreditation Standards “Community dental health is concerned with the knowledge, attitudes, skills, and behaviors necessary to promote oral health and prevent oral disease through organized community-based efforts. The content of such programming must provide accurate and evidenced-based information and promote only those that reliable research data have shown to be effective and safe”.

“The student will be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills in oral epidemiology and research methodologies.” …

‘Epidemiological patterns of oral diseases and epidemiological methods of investigation include’:

1. Methodologies utilized in oral health research.
2. Biostatistics in oral health research.
3. Epidemiological reports such as: Healthy People 2010, Surgeon General’s Report on Oral Health,
Surgeon General’s Call to Action.

Please write a research paper concerning this the epidemiology pattern of oral diseases.. You must find 5 articles to include in your research paper. You will find some references in your book that may be used. You will find many articles on the internet, they must be peer reviewed, and scientifically based.

1. You may pick an oral disease to research the epidemiology pattern of.
or
2. You may do a paper on the epidemiology pattern of general oral diseases in a certain populations.

Please start with the WHO Strategies and approaches in oral disease prevention and health promotion, handed out today. Relate your paper to this WHO strategy. Please include in your paper some possible action programs which may be implemented to reduce the amount or severity of the oral disease, or reduce the incidence in the study population. Please include the 5 articles you have used. This paper should be comprehensive and referenced. It should be 3-5 pages long. Please include the 3 methods of investigation as stated above.