Introduction
National Oral Health Programme (NOHP) is an initiative of the 12th Plan period launched in the year 2014-15 to strengthen the public health facilities of the country for an accessible, affordable & quality oral health care delivery.
Goal: To improve the oral health status of the population across all age groups by reducing the oral disease burden (incidence, prevalence and impact) through provision of accessible, affordable, acceptable, appropriate and comprehensive oral health care.
The program has two components as under:
- NHM Component: support is provided to States to set up Dental Care Units at District Hospitals or below
- Tertiary Component: For central level activities
Under NHM component
Support provided to state/UT for:
- Human Resources [Dental Surgeon, Dental Hygienist, Dental Assistant, Dental Technician]
- Equipment including Dental Chair, autoclave etc
- Consumables for dental procedures
- Training and IEC activities
9587 dental care units have been supported since 2014-15 either partially or fully, which includes 593 DH, 1083 SDH, 2849 CHC,5113 PHC, 17 AAM and 27 Mobile Dental Units across all States/UTs.
Under Tertiary component
- CDER, AIIMS, New Delhi has been identified as Center of Excellence for implementation of NOHP
- National Resource Centers(NRC) established under NOHP –
- Oral Potentially Malignant Disorders at LHMC, Delhi
- Tobacco Cessation and Oral Health at MAIDS, Delhi
- Oral health of children and elderly at PGIMER, Chandigarh.
- To support Research, NOHP is supporting the establishment of National Referral & Research Center for Higher Dental Studies(NaRRIDS) at AIIMS, Delhi
9587 dental care units have been supported since 2014-15 either partially or fully, which includes 593 DH, 1083 SDH, 2849 CHC,5113 PHC, 17 AAM and 27 Mobile Dental Units across all States/UTs.
