Dr. Aditi Kapur’s illustrated Book on Oral Health released by Prof. Vivek Lal, Director, PGIMER

Dr. Aditi Kapur’s illustrated Book on Oral Health released by Prof. Vivek Lal, Director, PGIMER
Dr. Aditi Kapur, Professor, Pediatric Dentistry Unit, Oral Health Science Center, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh has written an innovative child motivation booklet for children with an aim to encourage them to develop healthy oral habits from the initial years. This book is in a graphic story format and attempts to make young children understand the basic principles of oral diseases and oral health maintenance in a non-didactic manner.
Director, PGIMER, Professor Vivek Lal, officially released the book today and highlighted that Early childhood caries (ECC) is one of the most prevalent chronic conditions of early childhood with at least one in every three children less than six years old being affected by it to some extent. Oral diseases are largely preventable and thus understanding this concept from very initial years would be largely. beneficial.
Professor Krishan Gauba, Head, Oral Health Sciences Center, PGIMER, Chandigarh commented that Something like this was much needed in Pediatric Dentistry literature as one often finds parents complaining about children not coming easily aboard for tooth brushing despite having been told its importance either by parents, teachers, professionals.
Professor Kapur said that this book is an attempt to directly reach out to the young children and she hopes it shall make a difference in fighting the battle against Early Childhood Caries.