Nigeria to implement National Oral Health Policy

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In addition, she said that the ministry had been promoting oral hygiene across the country through its partners-Colgate and Unilever.

An oral health policy helps to harness political, economic and socio-cultural factors at the individual, family, community, national and international levels.

Meanwhile, according to the draft policy, since the development of the 2012 National Oral Policy, there have been more research-based evidence showing the rising prevalence and burden of oral health problems. An estimated 2.4 billion people globally suffer from caries of permanent teeth, and 486 million children suffer caries of primary teeth.

 

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