Table 1
Changes in dental health education
• There has been a move away from propaganda
and a reliance on didactic teaching methods,
towards education which stresses involvement and
participation in learning experiences.
• Over the last 20 years dental health education
has increasingly sought inputs from the fields of
education, sociology and psychology.
• Dental health education has moved away from
supplying information and towards seeking to modify
attitudes and change behaviour.
• Dental health education has become more specific,
and has increased the number of target groups to
which it is directed.
• A major change has been that of accountability, the
need to evaluate what is done at every stage.