The ways of saving a dental health of foreign students in medical higher school

Abstract

The results of the study have shown that there is no dental prophylactic examination in foreign students that testifies to necessary organizational changes, implementation of which is impossible without promotion on the part authorities and medical staff of Institutions rendering dental assistance to students as well as insurance companies. Moreover, methodological disassociation and the lack of universal approaches to dental health preservation of the higher school students are noted. The complex of the measures proposed will allow to significantly improve the condition of oral tissues and organs of the mouth in foreign students, to positively change their hygienic habits of oral care, stimulate behavior habits for maintenance of healthy life style that in turn will make it possible to reduce the students adaptation period to residence and studies in Russia as well as to increase the quality of foreign students’ life style and will help to be useful for medical practice in their home countries when they graduate from the institute.