Resumen

ROMERO, Yajaira. Dental Health and its goals for the present millennium. Acta odontol. venez [online]. 2006, vol.44, n.2, pp.210-215. ISSN 0001-6365.

Dental health has been considered an important aspect in the people’s life conditions and well-being. For the present millennium, the main goal in dental health care is to develop a more holistic dental practice. Then, it is necessary to develop theories and methodologies with which dental health can be approached from its social and biological perspectives to change the dental health care traditional view focused on the treatment of oral diseases to a new one focused on the prevention of them. The purpose of this bibliographic investigation is to identify conceptual aspects, which contribute to the operational development of the dental health social perspective. Furthermore, discussions about the nature of the study objects and work of dental health are held. Finally, technical considerations that allow the design of work proposals with the participation of the family in search of the main causes of their common oral diseases in their community are discussed.

Palabras clave : dental health social and biological aspects; health promotion; education for family health; oral health as a social problem.