National love teeth day introduced.
1989, signed by the Ministry of Health, the Education Commission and other ministries, designated September 20th of each year as national love teeth day (China). Every year, Love Teeth Day has a theme.
The purpose of the establishment of national love teeth day.
The purpose is to widely mobilize social forces, popularize the knowledge of dental disease prevention and treatment among the masses, enhance the concept of oral health and self-awareness of oral health care, establish oral health care behavior, and improve the oral health level of the whole nation. There are many patients with dental caries and periodontal diseases in China, but the manpower, material resources and financial resources for oral health care are very limited. Therefore, the fundamental way to solve the dental problem lies in prevention. Setting up tooth love day is an important measure to strengthen oral prevention and implement the policy of putting prevention first.
Influence of oral diseases on oral health
1, toothache or tooth loss caused by oral diseases affects the function of chewing food.
2, oral diseases cause pain, leading to unilateral chewing habits, which will cause facial development asymmetry for a long time.
3. Early deciduous teeth fall off, which leads to the displacement of adjacent teeth to the gap, leading to the disorder of occlusal relationship and the formation of permanent teeth; If deciduous tooth caries are not treated in time, it will also cause permanent tooth dysplasia.
4. The loss of dentition leads to the loss of normal physiological stimulation of masticatory function, which affects the normal development of jaw and can cause deformities of different maxillofacial degrees.
5. Poor oral hygiene and diseases can lead to bad breath.
6. Oral cancer can directly threaten people's lives and is one of the six most common cancers in the world. Postoperative oral cancer often leads to severe facial disfigurement.
7. The oral cavity is an organic whole. If oral diseases are not treated in time or improperly, it will often lead to other oral diseases.
Effects of Oral Diseases on General Health
1, heart disease
Pathogens of oral diseases and their toxins can invade the blood, aggravating or causing subacute infective endocarditis, coronary heart disease and other heart diseases. A large number of studies have confirmed that periodontitis is an independent risk factor of acute attack of coronary heart disease, which is significantly related to acute attack or total mortality.
2. Respiratory diseases
Oral diseases are closely related to aspiration pneumonia caused by various reasons. According to relevant statistics, 80% of the cause of pneumonia is inhalation of secretions containing bacteria in the mouth and pharynx, and most of these secretions come from the mouth.
3. Diabetes
A large number of studies show that diabetes and periodontal disease have the same risk factors and are high-risk factors for each other. Studies have shown that diabetic patients are often complicated with different degrees of oral diseases. In the diabetic population, the incidence of periodontal disease is high, and the lesions are seriously damaged and progress faster. At the same time, the blood sugar control of insulin-dependent diabetes patients with severe periodontitis is obviously worse than that of patients without periodontal disease.
4. Gastrointestinal diseases
Gastrointestinal ulcer is caused by Helicobacter pylori, and there are a lot of Helicobacter pylori in the mouth. Drugs can easily remove Helicobacter pylori in the stomach and intestines, but it is difficult to remove Helicobacter pylori in dental plaque, which becomes a bacterial bank.
5. Cerebral vascular diseases
Periodontal disease is related to carotid plaque thickening, which is a measure of atherosclerosis, indicating that the related mechanism of periodontal disease and carotid plaque thickening is actually the influence on atherosclerosis. Periodontitis, as a risk factor of stroke, is greater than smoking and independent of other known risk factors. It is reported that 25% of stroke patients have oral infection, while the control group has only 2.5%.
6, the impact on pregnant women and the fetus
Today's research has proved that periodontal disease is one of the risk factors leading to the birth of low birth weight babies. The risk rate of premature delivery and low birth weight of pregnant women with severe periodontitis is 7.5 times that of normal pregnant women, which is greater than the influence of smoking and drinking on low birth weight infants.
7, affect the growth and development
The decline of chewing function leads to partial eclipse and loss of appetite, which leads to the weakening of gastrointestinal digestion and absorption ability, malnutrition of the body and affects growth and development.