PREVENTIVE DENTISTRY AS AN ESSENTIAL COMPONENT OF THE PROGRAM "HEALTH XXI"
This article focuses on the need to develop integrated regional programmes of primary prevention of dental diseases. The main directions of the Global programme of the who dentistry. Noted the relationship and interdependence of pathological processes occurring in the body. So pathological changes in the organs of the mouth are often the first clinical signs of metabolic disturbances, especially when the disease of the digestive system, neuroendocrine and haematopoietic system, infectious diseases. The role of oral health for the state of the whole organism and course of somatic pathology in particular. In the survey studied the state of primary prevention among first year students of the medical faculty of Kursk State Medical University, Kursk. The analysis of obtained data allowed to assess the state of primary prevention.