Prevention as a treatment of excellence--a view from Mexico City

Lopez-Cámara, V.

International Dental Journal 42(2): 83-91

1992


ISSN/ISBN: 0020-6539
PMID: 1624203
Document Number: 395832
Using survey data from Mexico City recorded in 1982 and 1989, the results of this paper suggest that practice-based, disease-orientated, one-to-one technical dentistry is failing to solve the problems of oral health. Prevention constitutes a much better alternative as it can be provided for a greater number of people, more easily and more cheaply. Recommendations are made on how dental practitioners can adopt measures to change professional behaviour in order to institute preventive measures.

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