What is a Preventive DentistryPreventive Denstistry is part of Dentistry which generally aims to prevent the occurrence of disease or prevent the severity of the disease in order to protect the health of the mouth, which is at the point of focus to keep people stay healthy.
Purpose is to make human beings until his death still has all the elements of an intact dentition tooth and natural.
Whereas the definition of prevention is growing or prevent a disease or recover bodily functions are lost or reduced due to illness :
Prevention is based on three levels of disease, namely:
1. Primary Prevention
Primary prevention prevents someone against a disease, The purpose of primary prevention is to maintain the health of the individual and the population in General and minimize the risk of the occurrence of a disease or an accident. In this primary prevention implemented programs, procedures or measures to prevent the disease before the disease occurs.
An example of primary prevention are: Recommending diet and plaque control to prevent caries, fissure sealent, routine dental examination and diagnostic radiography.
2. Secondary Prevention
The purpose of secondary prevention is to limit the development and impact of the disease as early as possible after the disease emerged. To stop the progression of the disease, so the disease appears and is detected it is necessary action to control and eliminate the disease spread further.
Examples of secondary prevention is patching ART or Glass Ionomer (GI) to overcome initial caries, tartar cleanup so as not to continue being more severe periodontal disease.
3. Tertiary Prevention
Tertiary prevention is an effort to limit development of tissue damage or inability after an illness causing the onset of limited functionality. At this stage, the disease process has been expanded to a point where the patient's medical status has changed and can not return to the condition prior to the illness.
Examples of tertiary prevention is the dental caries in the patching to prevent caries is not more severe to cause pulpitis. Another example if periodontal concerns, periodontitis can be handled by various intervention and surgical procedures.
