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Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Hygiene > Oral Hygiene
Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Hygiene > Oral Hygiene
Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Hygiene > Oral Hygiene
Therapeutics > Hygiene > Oral Hygiene
Health Occupations > Dentistry > Preventive Dentistry > Oral Hygiene

Preferred term

Oral Hygiene  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Narrower concepts

Entry terms

  • Dental Hygiene
  • Hygiene, Dental

Note

  • differentiate from ORAL HEALTH; oral hyg is care toward maintaining good oral health performed by the person himself or a caregiver in the case of invalid or disabled persons; differentiate also from DENTAL CARE, care by professionals; for oral hyg using dental floss, water picks, etc. use DENTAL DEVICES, HOME CARE or TOOTHBRUSHING

Scope note

  • The practice of personal hygiene of the mouth. It includes the maintenance of oral cleanliness, tissue tone, and general preservation of oral health.

History note

  • 73; DENTAL HYGIENE was heading 1963-64, was see DENTAL PROPHYLAXIS 1991

In other languages

  • suuhygienia

    Finnish

  • henkilökohtainen suuhygienia
  • henkilökohtainen suun hygienia
  • suun hygienia
  • Munhygien

    Swedish

  • Munvård

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D009910

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