title: Teaching dental public health to undergraduates using community profiles and patient case studies.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Provide an example of how dental public health can be taught to undergraduates.
  
  
  METHODS
  Educational case study.
  
  
  METHODS
  General dental practice.
  
  
  METHODS
  Dental outreach placement and supporting project work. One project required students to study patients in the context of their environment via the social history.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The student learned about the social determinants of health and differentiated between the causes of disease in the patient and the determinants of health affecting the practice population.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Outreach training can help students learn about the social determinants of health. Dental schools may have missed an opportunity to use outreach to help their students learn from and about their environment and its impact on the health of their patients.
authors.affiliation: School of Clinical Dentistry, University of Sheffield.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Nandakumar
authors.forename: P G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Robinson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D055113:Chronic Periodontitis / Q000150:complications; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000150:complications; D004739:England; D005792:General Practice, Dental / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011204:Poverty Areas; D011610:Psychosocial Deprivation; D011636:Public Health Dentistry / Q000193:education*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000150:complications; D016388:Tooth Loss / Q000150:complications; D014478:Unemployment