Manpower training, development and utilisation in primary oral health care. A suggested approach for Nigeria.

The author has looked at the importance of training development and utilization of front-line oral health workers of various types due to the role they play within the programme for the total health care of the nation. The author feels that primary oral health care should, therefore, be developed and made an integral part of primary health care, an approach from which most nations, especially developing ones, stand to gain.