National love teeth day's background and previous themes.

Dental caries complicated with periodontal disease is a common and frequently-occurring disease that harms the oral health of China population, and it is also the most common oral disease that harms the healthy growth of children and adolescents.

On the one hand, China people, especially students, have serious dental caries and periodontal diseases, and there is a trend of increasing with age. On the other hand, the manpower, material resources and financial resources of oral preventive health care in China are very limited, and the development of oral preventive health care in various places is very uneven, and even there is a gap in oral preventive health care in some areas. For this reason, some people of insight and relevant experts in our country have realized that the only way out of dental diseases is prevention, and the primary task of prevention is to carry out mass oral health education activities. They also investigated the practice and experience of developing oral health education activities abroad. National love teeth day? .

With the joint efforts of experts from the National Dental Prevention and Control Steering Group and Advisory Group, 1989 is jointly signed by the Ministry of Health, the National Patriotic Health Association, the State Education Commission, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the All-China Women's Federation, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and the National Committee on Aging, and the 20th of September is determined. National love teeth day? . Its purpose is to pass? National love teeth day? Activities, mobilize all sectors of society to participate in supporting oral health care, widely carry out mass oral health knowledge popularization education, enhance self-awareness and ability of oral health care, and improve the oral health level of the people throughout the country.

Establish? National love teeth day? It is a pioneering activity of mass oral health education in China and an important measure to promote the development of dental disease prevention and health care in China.

Dental caries has been listed by the World Health Organization as one of the three major prevention and treatment diseases after cardiovascular diseases and cancer, and every year on September 20th? World tooth love day? .

Previous themes

1989: Everyone should brush their teeth, brush their teeth in the morning and evening, brush their teeth correctly, and brush their teeth with health care toothbrushes and fluoride toothpaste.

1990: Love your teeth and strengthen your body.

199 1 year: Love your teeth since childhood.

1992: Love teeth, start from childhood, start from me.

1993: Brush your teeth every day and check regularly.

1994: Healthy living requires oral hygiene.

1995: Proper use of fluoride to prevent dental caries.

1996: Eating less sugary food is good for oral health.

1997: Love teeth to strengthen the body, prevent caries and periodontal disease, and healthy teeth will accompany you all your life.

1998: Healthy teeth, beautiful smile

1999: oral health care for the elderly

2000: Be kind to your teeth.

200 1: smoking and oral health