Strong evidences are constantly accumulating about the causal important role in the periodontal disease of some predisposing systemic diseases, conditions and behavioural factors. The concept of activites for promoting health which would include: prevention services for health, communitarian work, development at organizational level, public health politics, measures for the health of the surrounding environment, economic and regulatory activities and programs of health education. There are two main prevention strategies: the first one relies on the strategy of increased risk, the second method of approach is the strategy at population level. The prevention should be started in childhood because the debut of the periodontal disease is in adolescence. This is sustained also by the fact that many causal factors for periodontits which can be prevented are connected to behaviour and lifestyle, which are mostly shaped in childhood and adolescence.
Keywords:- EDUCATION FOR HEALTH
- PERIODONTAL DISEASE
- PREVENTION STRATEGIES