DEFINITION OF ORAL HEALTH

What is oral health?

Oral health is multi-faceted and includes the ability to speak, smile, smell, taste, touch, chew, swallow and convey a range of emotions through facial expressions with confidence and without pain, discomfort and disease of the craniofacial complex.

Further attributes related to the definition state that oral health:

• is a fundamental component of health and physical and mental well-being. It exists along a continuum influenced by the values and attitudes of individuals and communities;
• reflects the physiological, social and psychological attributes that are essential to the quality of life;
• is influenced by the individual’s changing experiences, perceptions, expectations and ability to adapt to circumstances.

Source:- www.fdiworlddental.org/oral-health/fdis-definition-of-oral-health

Don’t hesitate to contact me for further clarification. Dr. Odeyemi Kolade,

Project Smile 32 Senior facilitator 

0906-1999-927.