Take Five to Answer These Five on Dental and Oral Health!

As per WHO, oral diseases pose a major global health burden and affect people throughout their lifetime, leading even to death. However, most of them are preventable and can be treated in their early stages. The prevalent conditions include dental caries, periodontal diseases, oral cancers, trauma, cleft lip and palate, and gangrenous noma disease.

Some of the modifiable risk factors implicated in oral diseases are high sugar consumption, tobacco and alcohol use, and poor oral hygiene. Take this quiz to test your knowledge of dental and oral health. References: USFDA, WHO, StatPearl, Shafer’s Textbook of Oral Pathology, Int J Dent