Int Dent J
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Dental education is dynamic. Many factors--economic, pedagogical, managerial, logistic, trends in disease patterns and delivery systems--are influencing its future directions and relationships with medical and other health professions' education. This article attempts to highlight those trends and relationships, at least in part of the world.
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The implementation of the Health (Fluoridation of Water Supplies) Act 1960 was preceded by a survey of child dental health in the Republic of Ireland. A follow up national survey in 1982 showed that caries had declined in both fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities, although more so in the former. An adult dental health survey reported in 1992 showed that tooth loss had declined in the period 1979 to 1989.