With the joint efforts of experts from the National Dental Prevention and Control Steering Group and Advisory Group, 1989 was jointly signed by the Ministry of Health, the National Patriotic Health Association, the State Education Commission, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the All-China Women's Federation, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and the National Committee on Aging, and designated September 20th of each year as "national love teeth day".
Its purpose is to mobilize all sectors of society to participate in and support oral health care through the "national love teeth day" activities, extensively carry out mass oral health knowledge popularization education, enhance the self-awareness and ability of oral health care, and improve the oral health level of the people throughout the country.
The purpose of Love Teeth Day is to mobilize social forces to prevent dental diseases among the masses through the activities of Love Teeth Day. The popularization of the knowledge of loving and protecting teeth will strengthen the concept of oral health and self-awareness of oral health care, establish oral health care behavior, and thus improve the oral health level of the whole nation.
Background of the establishment of national love teeth day:
Dental caries and periodontal disease are common and frequently-occurring diseases that endanger the oral health of China population, and they are also the most common oral diseases that endanger the healthy growth of children and adolescents.
On the one hand, China people, especially students, have serious dental caries and periodontal diseases, and there is a trend of increasing with age. On the other hand, the manpower, material resources and financial resources of oral preventive health care in China are very limited, and the development of oral preventive health care in various places is very uneven, and even there is a gap in oral preventive health care in some areas.
Therefore, some people of insight and relevant experts in our country have realized that the only way out of dental diseases is prevention, and the primary task of prevention is to carry out mass oral health education activities. They also inspected the practice and experience of oral health education abroad and called for the establishment of "national love teeth day".