Community Dental Health

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Cover Date:
September 2016
Print ISSN:
0265 539X
Vol:
33
Issue:
3

The teaching of Dental Public Health – 50 years on

Professor and Honorary Consultant in Dental Public Health, Cardiff University Dental School, UK
Abstract: In 1966, James published an article in the British Dental Journal (and reprinted here) which made recommendations on the teaching of dental public health. The following commentary reviews the ideas put forward by James and how these relate to concepts of dental public health in the undergraduate dental curricula of 2016.

Introduction
In today’s busy professional environment, taking time to reflect on the past is something that we do not do
sufficiently often. Not only does thinking about where we have come from give a sense of perspective, it can
guide thoughts on where we are now and where we should be going to. The invitation from the Editor to write this commentary on the paper by P.M.C. James, “The teaching of dental public health and its relation to
children’s dentistry”, which was published in the British Dental Journal in 1966 is timely (James, 1966). A
working group of the European Association for Dental Public Health (EADPH) is currently considering the ideal
curriculum for Dental Public Health (DPH) (EADPH, 2016). It is therefore useful to compare concepts on what
a contemporary dental graduate should know about DPH, with the thoughts of a leader in the field fifty years ago.

Key words: public health dentistry, education dental, dental curriculum, history of dentistry

doi:10.1922/CDH_4011-Chestnut04

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Authors
I.G. Chestnutt

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