Best Practice 2

Best Practice 2

RURAL COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAMS

Objectives:

  • To spread oral health awareness among the rural population and to reduce the frequency of rural oral health problems.

  • To be a primary oral health care provider providing emergency and multidisciplinary oral health care.

  • To diagnose and identify common oral health problems among the rural populations in order to effectively tackle the endemic problem of the community.

  • To make health care solutions available to the unreachable.

  • To emphasize on the consequences of tobacco usage and health benefits of tobacco cessation.

  • To imbibe in students a spirit of social commitment towards protection of oral health.

Context:

  • Unusually high number of practitioners are settled in urban areas leading to creation of wide gaps in the accessibility of rural health services.

Practice:

  • Conducting dental screening & treatment camps in nearby villages, communities, schools, colleges, government bodies and special need centres.

  • Patients are screened and treated in these camps; those patients who need comprehensive care are referred to our Institution.

  • Special initiatives are taken to reach out to the geriatric population.

  • Free transportation is provided for patients to reach our Institution.

  • Fully equipped mobile dental van is used for all the dental camps.

  • Instilling experiential learning in students through implementation of rural dental health programs.

Evidence of Success:

  • Improved oral health conditions.

  • Active participation of rural population in the camps and their positive feedback.

  • Creating awareness of oral health and ill effects of tobacco.

  • Increased awareness among school children due to school dental health programs.

  • Increased awareness among rural population regarding oral health and general health.

Problems encountered and resources required:

  • Transportation of oral health care personnel to distinct areas as the rural roads are narrow and rough.

Getting approval from government bodies to conduct oral screening and treatment camps in government setups.

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