Oral and Public Health

Dear Colleagues,

The 2020 pandemic has highlighted how health plays the most important role in the life of human beings. Public health has a great impact on individuals, but also on the worldwide community, influencing social relationships and economies. The promotion of public health may be expressed as disease prevention and control as well as the limitation of related risk factors.

Oral diseases are the most representative noncommunicable diseases affecting a wide fraction of the global population, irrespective of gender and age. Moreover, systemic involvement caused by oral pathologies or their association with systemic conditions stress the importance of health programs aimed at drastically reducing the burden of oral diseases. Public health interventions and the reduction of risk factors should be the central core of preventive strategies, encouraging daily dental hygiene, balanced and healthy diet, and the reduction of bad habits (e.g., smoking, alcohol consumption, sedentary lifestyle), as well as regular dental visits.

Therefore, the aim of the present Topical Collection is to provide in the near future a broad spectrum of preventive actions to promote oral as well as public health, considering the variability of the population in terms of age, gender, habits, and social and economic conditions. In addition, treatment strategies will be supplied to re-establish health and avoid local as well as systemic side-effects that in turn will affect the quality of life of people.

Prof. Dr. Gianrico Spagnuolo
Collection Editor

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