Oral Prevention and Management of Oral Healthcare

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to invite you to submit a contribution to a Special Issue on Prevention and Oral Health in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Oral health is an important factor in the maintenance of general health, wellbeing, and overall quality of life. Envisioning a transformational change in the management of oral healthcare, this Special Issue welcomes manuscripts that can contribute the knowledge necessary to effectively manage oral prevention and oral healthcare.

This Special Issue will focus on oral health and prevention and their impact on clinical practice current oral health literacy and policies. The listed keywords suggest just a few of the many possibilities.

Preventive strategies should be implemented to reduce oral problems, due to the negative consequences on individuals and communities in terms of pain and suffering, functional impairments, and reduced quality of life. Psychosocial factors, such as improved awareness, knowledge, and attitudes toward dental health care in both children and adult patients, healthy or special needs ones, are included in general health status improvements.

Adopting multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary perspectives and a systems approach, expected submissions will cover the following topics:

1. Oral prevention and oral healthcare management;
2. Systems management for sustainability in oral healthcare organizations;
3. Knowledge management in oral healthcare organizations;
4. Education for oral healthcare sustainability;
5. New technologies for oral healthcare sustainability;
6. Oral prevention project for improving awareness and knowkedge of oral health.

All original articles, case reports, and review articles will be welcome.

Prof. Iole Vozza
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2500 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.