The World Oral Health Day is celebrated annually on March 20, and is an international day to celebrate the benefits of a healthy mouth, and to promote global awareness on the key issues around oral health and the importance of oral hygiene to looking after everyone old and young. The World Oral Health Day is intended to be a day for people to have fun, in that it should be a day full of activities that make us laugh, sing and smile!

Over 90% of the world’s population will suffer from oral diseases in their lifetime. Many of these diseases can be avoided with an increased governmental, health association and society support and funding for prevention, detection and treatment programmes. The World Oral Health Day offers a platform to the dental and oral health community to take action and to help reduce the overall disease burden.

In 2016, the World Oral Health Day aims to get everyone to recognize the impact that their oral health has on overall physical health and well-being to help inspire a sense of change. The overall campaign platform for 2016 revolves around the theme of “healthy mouth, healthy body”. This powerful and engaging messaging is rooted in a global truth which informs the concept of oral health’s wider importance. With the idea of seeking to galvanize the audience to drive a movement for change, the flexible platform offers the opportunity to discuss many topics and audiences under one core message.

It is easy for anyone to participate in World Oral Health Day of 2016: whether you belong to a health association, a specialist group, a member organization and or as a partner, governmental groups, students, teachers, the public generally, and to large and so on. This year, the aim is to get as many people as possible to get talking and to promote oral health in their communities, and reach as large an audience as possible.

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Reference:
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