Sex, Drugs and Oral Health: Dental Health Week 2013

The ADA's aim for Dental Health Week (DHW) 2013, which will run from 5-9 August, is to help young adults make sure their teeth make it well past their 30th birthday.  To help achieve this goal, the ADA will release the Young Person’s Oral Survival Guide.

The Guide will address commonplace issues such as binge drinking and smoking, but also the more taboo subjects of drug use and oral sex, and it will be accessible from the DHW website once the week-long campaign begins on 5 August.

The ADA Inc. has issued a media release on this year's DHW theme.  Click here to review the background to the campaign, and in particular for fast facts on:

• Oral cancer
• Drinking / Smoking
• Oral sex / HPV
• Lip and tongue piercings
• Eating the wrong things / Diet
• Using teeth as tools