Abstract
Abstract Dental public health (also known as ‘community oral health’ and ‘community dentistry’) is the branch of dentistry that aims to prevent oral disease and maintain oral health by focusing on societal influences and working with communities as opposed to individual patients. By studying dental public health the dental undergraduate will develop an understanding of how the nature of the community, access to material goods and services, and broad cultural composition will impact on disease experience, type of dental services people prefer, their likely attendance and ability to maintain their own dental health (Pine and Harris 2006). The study of dental public health therefore requires an understanding of the relevant aspects of:
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