Envisioning dentistry's future: highlighting self-care and hygiene amid the challenges of the WHO global oral health action plan
Abstract
The global burden of oral diseases, despite decades of advances in dentistry, has remained persistently high, with little change in incidence or prevalence over the past 30 years
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