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Why prevention is the only affordable dentistry India has left
Treatment-led models cannot scale to 1.4 billion people. Here is the arithmetic — and what to do instead.
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Prevention, policy and public health — written for the people who do this work, and for anyone who wants to understand why we do it this way.
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Five signs in the mouth that should never wait two weeks
A field guide for teachers, ASHA workers and anyone who screens at scale.
Draft — to be written
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What AI screening can and cannot do in a village camp
Promising for triage, dangerous as a substitute. A realistic look at the tooling.
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Milk teeth fall out. That is not a reason to ignore them.
The single most persistent myth we work against, and why it costs children years of pain.
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It is how often you eat sugar, not how much
Six sweets at once is kinder to teeth than six sweets across a day. The mechanism, explained simply.
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Almost everyone brushes too hard
Pressure does not clean better. It wears enamel and recedes gums. What to do instead.
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Talking about tobacco without lecturing
What actually works in a village camp, from people who have had this conversation thousands of times.
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The referral gap is our biggest failure
We raise far more referrals than we close. Here is what we know about why, and what we are changing.
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Sealants: the highest-value ten minutes in childhood dentistry
Cheap, painless, quick and strongly evidenced. So why do so few Indian children get them?
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