Military Workers Research Articles

Role of prevention in military dentistry

Present technics and manpower are in­ adequate to meet the demands for dental treatment in all the military services. One solution is a military preventive dentistry program, and the Army is establishing such a program, with the advice of an ad hoc committee of civilian and military workers in preventive dentistry. Long­ term aspects of the program involve ac­ celeration of advanced dental education and of clinical and basic research.