Fomete B, Adebayo E T
Maxillofacial Surgery Department, Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria. Nigeria.
Military Hospital, Benin-City, Nigeria.
J West Afr Coll Surg. 2018 Oct-Dec;8(4):93-113.
Oral health as an integral component of overall health is provided by dental professionals (Dental surgeons/stomatologists, hygienists, dental nurses, technicians, community extension workers). Oral diseases in West Africa are dominated by gum/periodontal diseases, dental caries, orofacial trauma, cancrum oris/noma and oral cancer. Human resources and infrastructure for oral health services in West Africa are skewed towards the urban areas where the rich live, while the rural poor have relatively little or no human resources and infrastructure. The development of human resources for oral health started much later than for other health services in West Africa. In all countries, the training of dentists at undergraduate level started after independence. In Nigeria, postgraduate training in dental surgery took off more than 10 years after the graduation of the first set of undergraduate dental surgeons. To meet contemporary realities for improved dental services with a substantial reduction of all oral health diseases in the region, there is need to review the 1998 WHO health strategies.
口腔健康作为整体健康的一个组成部分，由牙科专业人员（牙科外科医生/口腔颌面外科医生、保健员、牙科护士、技术人员、社区推广工作者）提供。西非的口腔疾病主要包括牙龈/牙周疾病、龋齿、口腔面部创伤、坏疽性口炎/走马疳和口腔癌。西非口腔健康服务的人力资源和基础设施偏向于富人居住的城市地区，而农村贫困人口拥有的人力资源和基础设施相对很少或根本没有。西非口腔健康人力资源的发展比其他卫生服务起步要晚得多。在所有国家，本科阶段的牙医培训都是在独立后开始的。在尼日利亚，牙科外科的研究生培训在第一批本科牙科外科医生毕业十多年后才开始。为了适应改善牙科服务的当代现实，大幅减少该地区所有口腔健康疾病，有必要对1998年世界卫生组织的卫生战略进行审查。
