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Strategies and Approaches in Oral Disease Prevention: A Common Risk Factor Approach
Abstract
Abhinav Parakh, Jayachandra Megalamanegowdru, Anubhuti Jain and Sourabh Sahu
The common risk factor approach (CRFA) has been highly influential in integrating oral health into general health improvement strategies. However, dental policy makers and oral health promoters have interpreted the CRFA too narrowly. They have focussed too heavily on the common behavioural risks, rather than on the broader shared social determinants of chronic diseases. Future action to address oral health inequalities in middle- and highincome countries requires a radical policy reorientation towards tackling the determinants of chronic dis