Oral health is fundamental to general health and well-being. A healthy mouth enables an individual to speak, eat and socialize without experiencing active disease, discomfort or embarrassment. Oral disease can lead to pain and tooth loss, a condition that affects the appearance, quality of life, nutritional intake and consequently, the growth and development of children. The burden of oral disease is considerable.The sole purpose of the educational, prevention and curative oral health activities under the School Oral Health Program is to nullify the incidence of hard and soft tissue diseases...

Growth rotations are a reflection of differential growth in anterior and posterior face heights. Growth in posterior face height depends on the vertical components of growth at the middle cranial fossa and at the condyle. It is suggested that growth in anterior face height is greatly influenced by growth of the cervical column and the resulting differential growth of the muscles, fascia and other soft tissues that pass between cranium, mandible, hyoid bone and shoulder girdle. The effects of variations in head posture are superimposed upon these primary determinants. So the aim of this book...

Fluorides have the toxic potential when used in high concentrations in the drinking water. These effects can be classified as acute, due to a single ingestion of a large amount of fluoride or chronic, due to long term ingestion of smaller amounts known as fluorosis which affects the teeth and bones. There are three important approaches to overcome this problem (1) Health education for creating the disease awareness and about the sources of the fluoride. (2) Treatment of the disease as recent studies conducted in Rajasthan indicated that fluorosis could be reversed, at least in children, by a...