March 6 is observed as National Dentists day and to celebrate this day Department of Public Health Dentistry organized awareness program in Saveetha satellite centre, Thirumazhasai, Chennai.
The main purpose was to raise awareness about the oral disease among patients. Always people avoid dental visits because of nervousness and anxiety which leads to major oral health issues. Dental caries and periodontal diseases are public health problem in India. Points highlighted during the program were structure of tooth, causes, management and prevention of dental caries, periodontal disease, malocclusion, oral cancer and maintenance of oral health. We also distributed free tooth brushes and tooth pastes to the gathered patients.Therefore National Dentists day was celebrated to increase public awareness on periodic dental visits and dental health issues.
