Community dentistry 4 articles

Community dentistry refers to dental care and preventive activity organized around the needs of a defined community rather than only individual fee-for-service encounters. It can include outreach, school programs, public clinics, care for underserved groups and coordination with wider health or social services. The term overlaps with dental public health but often emphasizes service delivery and community-based clinical care, whereas dental public health also includes population surveillance, policy, epidemiology and program evaluation at a broader systems level.