Port Blair, Mar 18: World Oral Health Day is an international day celebrated worldwide on 20th March every year. The event is observed to spread the message of the benefits of healthy mouth and to promote worldwide awareness of the issues around oral health. The message contained in the theme chosen for the event – Healthy Mouth, Healthy Body – clearly brings out the importance of oral hygiene in a person’s overall health and quality of life. A healthy body needs a healthy mouth is the simple message that the campaign attempts to convey to the people. IDA over the years has been relentlessly carrying out a campaign to promote oral health awareness to attain its goal of optimal oral health for all in the country.
World Oral Health Day (WOHD) is celebrated every year on 20 March. It is an international day to celebrate the benefits of a healthy mouth and to promote worldwide awareness of the issues around oral health and the importance of oral hygiene to looking after everyone old and young. Because 90% of the world’s population will suffer from oral diseases in their lifetime and many of them can be avoided with increased governmental, health association and society support and funding for prevention, detection and treatment programmes. In addition, World Oral Health Day offers the dental and oral health community a platform to take action and help reduce the overall disease burden.
WOHD 2016 aims to get everyone to recognize the impact their oral health has on overall physical health and wellbeing to help inspire this change, the overall campaign platform will be: “It all starts here. Healthy mouth. Healthy body”
This powerful and engaging messaging is rooted in a global truth of oral health’s wider importance, galvanizing the audience to drive a movement for change. The flexible platform gives the opportunity to discuss multiple topics and audiences under one core message.
