DHA to launch dental screening in Dubai schools

  • United Arab Emirates: Thursday, February 07 - 2013 at 07:04

Dubai Health Authority has launched a survey to evaluate the oral hygiene standards of over 5,600 schoolchildren in the emirate, Khaleej Times has reported. As part of the survey, 5,670 students aged 5, 12 and 15 years across both public and private schools in Dubai will be screened and clinically examined by DHA dentists and hygienists according to World Health Organisation criteria. The DHA has 17 dental centres spread across the emirate of Dubai, which last year received 140,000 patients, 117,384 patients in 2011 and 107,271 in 2010.

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