P.R.H. 7 (REVISEDI 4000001
ECME ONP JOVERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICES
DAILY
INFORMATION BULLETIN
Saturday, July 8, 1972
OPENING OF DENTAL HEALTH WEEK
The public must realise that dental health cannot be separated
from general health since oral disease may be an aggravating factor in
some more wide spread systemic disorder, the Director of Medical and
Health Services, Dr. G.H. Choa, said today.
Any action taken to improve or maintain dental health is of
great importance because it safeguards general health as well, he said.
Dr. Choa was speaking at a luncheon meeting in the Hong Kong
Hotel on the occasion of the opening of the Dental Health Week organised
by the Dental Society of Hong Kong.
Generally speaking, people tend to appreciate the importance
of health only when it is impaired, but very often early symtoms of disease
go un-noticed or are regarded as of little significance.
"This tendency also applies to dental disease, in fact
even more so," he added.
, perhaps
The Director said the undramatic nature of most dental diseases
was such that people tend to ingore them or, at least, to put up with them
until the condition became serious enough to be intolerable.
"People are perhaps more anxious about headaches or epigastric
pains than toothaches which somehow they always seem to hope that they
can get rid of."
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