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On World Oral Health Day on 20 March 2024, the World Health Organization is calling for action in countries of the South-East Asia Region and among partners to promote oral health and reduce the burden of oral diseases.
Oral diseases are among the most common noncommunicable diseases worldwide. Despite being largely preventable, there were estimated to be more than 3.5 billion cases of such diseases and other related conditions globally in 2019. It is unfortunate that between 1990 and 2019, estimated case numbers of oral diseases in the…