The site includes many interesting, educational activities, games and puzzles to encourage a child's interest in caring for their teeth. The National Parent Consortium is organizing a parent' Pre-conference on oral health as part of the Surgeon General's Conference on Oral Health. The goal of the pre-conference is to make sure that parents' voices are heard and their expectations make a contribution to national planning and policy making on problems of children's oral health in America. Parents will review findings of the Surgeon General's Report on Children and Oral Health and provide input to a report on parents' perspectives on children's oral health that will be presented at the Surgeon General's Conference by Jackie Golden on Tuesday, June 13th. The Surgeon General's report on oral health focuses national attention on the importance of oral health as an indicator and component of overall health for children and adults.
Oral health is integral to general health.
You cannot be healthy without oral health. Oral health and general health should not be interpreted as eparate entities. Oral health is a critical component of health and must be included in the provision of health care and the design of community programs. Safe and effective disease prevention measures exist that everyone can adopt to improve oral health and prevent disease. These measures include daily oral hygiene procedures and other lifestyle behaviors, community programs such as community water fluoridation and tobacco cessation programs, and provider-based interventions such as the placement of dental sealants and examinations for common oral and pharyngeal cancers.