The role of health education in the prevention of dental disease.

Abstract

However, it still indicates that for a large proportion of the population, who have lost all their teeth, the dental services have been a total failure. Although disease prevalence is generally high, working class people fare even worse than their middle class peers. Again taking the proportion of people with no natural teeth in 1978 21 per cent of professional, intermediate and skilled non-manual workers were edentulous compared with 37 per cent of the semi-skilled non-manual, semiskilled manual and unskilled.