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Global Caries Epidemiology, New Approaches
Dentistry
August 30, 2024 - 16:00-17:00
Title: Global Caries Epidemiology, New Approaches
Abstract:
Understanding of socioeconomic context and caries date might enable more efficient evidence-based preventive strategies in oral health.
Introduction:
Dental Caries as noncommunicable disease (NCD) shares with other NCD’s modifiable risk factors such as high sugar intake and poor health behaviour; its prevalence is strongly influenced by socioeconomic contexts. These determinants strongly influence stark oral health inequalities between and within countries, creating resource unavailability, patient vulnerability and poor accessibility to health care in underprivileged social groups. According to the conceptual theoretical framework proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO) Commission on social determinants of health, the macro-level context influencing health outcomes involves several items as follows: (1) governance, (2) macroeconomic policies, (3) social policies, (4) public policies, (5) cultural and social values, (6) epidemiological circumstances. The strong effect of macro-level socioeconomic contexts on the oral health of different age-groups suggests favouring upstream preventive oral health strategies in countries with economic grown difficulties.
Learning Objectives:
- Summarise the scientific evidence on caries epidemiology and prevention
- Recognize the different caries levels in different age groups.
- Estimate the caries progressive rate
- Illustrate the best preventive approach
- Predict the outcome of the new approach
Speaker :
Prof. Guglielmo Campus
DDS, PhD, Honorary Doctor
Professor Preventive Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology
University of Bern
Switzerland
Bio:
Prof. Guglielmo Campus was nominated Extraordinariat Professor fur Präventivzahnmedizin und Orale Epidemiologie starting from February the 1st, 2019. He began his training at the Dental School, University of Sassari where he received his degree. He is Associate Professor Community Dentistry, Cariology and Preventive Dentistry, University of Sassari since 2014 – 2019. He is Head of the Paediatric Dentistry unit at the Dental Institute, University of Sassari 2010-2019. He is also Coordinator of the WHO Collaborating Center for Epidemiology and Community Dentistry of Milan 2014 – 2020. Research interests are largely direct towards Oral Epidemiology, Community Dentistry, Preventive Dentistry, Cariology and Paediatric Dentistry. During the years research interests span from Public Health Dentistry, Community Dentistry, Paediatric Dentistry, Restorative materials and Preventive programs. He is Member of the Research Board within The Italian Minister of Health for the realization of the Italian National Guidelines for Caries prevention and of the Clinical recommendations in Paediatric Dentistry. Dr. Campus is authors of more than 200 scientific papers. His work inside the WHO CC is to plan, to coordinate the assessing of oral health conditions of populations, policies development and implementation in Italy and other countries like Burkina Faso, Mexico etc; to support the early implementation of the phase down use of dental amalgam in the context of the Minamata Convention and Universal Health coverage (UHC) in Italy; to support measure that encourage life-course approach and population-based strategies related to reducing sugar consumption, tobacco control and affordability of fluoride-containing toothpaste and others vehicles of fluoride
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