ABSTRACT
The science and art of preventing oral disease, promoting oral health and improving the quality of life through the organised efforts of society. Comprises all the organisations and resources that are devoted to producing health action and includes all the activities whose primary purpose is to promote, restore and maintain health. The health care systems and actions taken within them designed to improve health and well-being. Comprises all the organisations and resources that are devoted to producing health action and includes all the activities whose primary purpose is to promote, restore and maintain health. Specific forms of behaviour which are proven to be associated with increased susceptibility to a specific disease or ill-health. Social, economic or biological status, behaviours or environments which are associated with or cause increased susceptibility to a specific disease, ill-health, or injury.
