Organization and methods of medical examination in dentistry

Traditional for the Soviet healthcare medical examination as a complex of timely diagnostic and therapeutic and preventive measures aimed at preventing diseases, their complications and undesirable consequences, occupies a worthy place in the fight for the health of the population of our country. Dentists, as well as other specialists, have accumulated solid experience in the medical examination of various contingents of the population. In the early years of the formation of the USSR, medical examination was carried out in the system of a single dispensary and covered only a relatively small circle of patients [1]. With the development and strengthening of the dental service in the post-war period, it became possible for dentists to conduct extensive medical examinations of certain groups of the population. Already in 1962, at the IV All-Union Congress of Dentists, the concept of "dental medical examination" was adopted and legalized as a set of planned measures to improve the oral cavity of various contingents of the population.