Question

Healthy People 2020 highlights the importance of addressing the social determinants of health by including “Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all” as one of the four overarching goals for the decade. , discuss how the dental hygienist can impact the social determinants of health to improve the health of our community.

Answer 1

Dental hygienists are healthcare workers that deals with oral health of individuals. Dental hygienist promotes, treats and works to prevent various oral diseases.
The dental hygienist educates client about dental hygiene and healthy behaviours thatpromoting dental hygiene, perform procedures such as plaques removal to treat oral diseases and educate people about nutritional importance to prevent such diseases.
By treating and preventing oral diseases and promoting dental hygiene, the dental hygienist help improve the health of our community.
Unhealthy oral practices can result in more serious dental diseases such as dental carries which requires surgical procedures. Dental hygienist prevent such diseases by promoting dental hygiene.
This helps keep the people healthy, saves them from painful dental procedures and prevent unwanted hospital expenses.
Some people may be conscious over the state of dental hygiene and have low confidence and self esteem due to the same reason. This may affect their job and personal relations. Dental hygienist encourages people to opt for healthy oral hygiene behaviour and nutrition that helps promote dental hygiene. This will help in achieving better oral hygiene and thus save people low self confidence and extra conscious.