The Dubai Health Authority, DHA, launched a city-wide dental and oral programme to improve oral health in Dubai, by ensuring all individuals have access to high quality dental treatments and effective prevention programmes.
DUBAI, (Pakistan Point News - 24th Sep, 2018) The Dubai Health Authority, DHA, launched a city-wide dental and oral programme to improve oral health in Dubai, by ensuring all individuals have access to high quality dental treatments and effective prevention programmes.
Humaid Al Qutami, Director-General of the DHA, announced the launch of the ‘DentOral’ programme as part of the Dubai Health Strategy 2016-2021 on Monday at the authority’s headquarters.
The programme will be implemented by DHA’s Dental Services Department, in partnership with OCSHI Solutions and Services and the Health Innovation Advisory and through the guidance of DHA’s Organisational Transformation Office.
DentOral also known as programme 5 will focus on four main initiatives: developing awareness programmes in dental and oral health, developing oral health prevention and screening programmes, developing and launching the Dubai dental protocol and developing innovative solutions for the delivery of dental services and treatment.
Worldwide, according to the World Health Organisation, WHO, 60 to 90 percent of school children and nearly 100 percent of adults have dental cavities. Meanwhile, the most common oral and dental diseases include dental cavities, periodontal disease, tooth loss and oral cancer.
By implementing ‘DentOral’, the DHA aims to reduce the prevalence of such diseases through five main methods: prevention, early access, treatment, clinical excellence and efficiency.
Al Qutami commended the programme adding that it will provide a distinctive preventive model for a health problem that significantly affects schoolchildren and adults around the world according to WHO, which also links oral health to many chronic and dangerous diseases.
He added that the authority has made a significant progress in oral and dental health and has taken the lead in providing dental clinics with the best equipment such as 3D printing technology, which has led to a real breakthrough in the prevention and treatment of oral and dental diseases and elevated the quality of medical services, provided to customers.
