Chairman of the Prophylaxis Committee
Petra Horakova (Czech Republic)
prophylaxis@iads-web.org
Dental caries is a disease that affects the majority of the population, despite an extensive network of dentists, dental hygienists and preventive measures. Although for most of the people brushing their teeth may be commonplace issue which everybody can handle, in fact there are many problems caused by wrong brushing technique.
There exist many myths about brushing teeth. We have been learning these mistakes since childhood so it would appear to be very important and necessary to show and explain people how to use right dental tools in nonviolent way and motivate them to take care about their oral health.
As a future dentist, we want to participate in prevention because we realize how important it is. And it is also one of the reasons why the Prophylaxis Committee was established.
