{"id":62758,"date":"2019-03-21T00:47:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T19:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=62758"},"modified":"2019-03-21T00:47:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T19:17:04","slug":"world-oral-health-day-observed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/03\/21\/world-oral-health-day-observed\/","title":{"rendered":"World Oral Health Day observed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NAHARLAGUN, Mar 20:<\/strong> The state unit of the Indian Dental Association (IDA) on Wednesday organized a &#8216;dental awareness and oral health check-up camp&#8217; at the children&#8217;s home and the Swadhar Greh of the Oju Welfare Association (OWA) here on the occasion of the World Oral Health Day (WOHD).<br \/>\nThe programme included free dental check-up and screening, besides demonstrations on oral hygiene and brushing by professionals. It also featured a &#8216;perfect smile&#8217; contest.<br \/>\nState IDA secretary Dr Tage Tamo spoke about the purpose of observing WOHD on 20 March, and said the camp was organized to spread awareness about oral health among &#8220;the public, the government and health associates.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe official theme of the 2019 WOHD campaign is &#8216;Say Ahh: Act on mouth health&#8217;.<br \/>\nThe IDA team included Drs Rajshree Sumnyan, Nyakde Rigia, Opok Pertin, Nima Tsering, Nabam Jiri, Abom Liggu and Seko Tajo.<br \/>\nAround 90 children, inmates and OWA staffers underwent oral check-up and screening. Free toothpaste and toothbrushes were also distributed among them.<br \/>\nThe prizes to the winners of the &#8216;best smile&#8217; contest were distributed by IDA president Dr Opok Pertin. He said more such camps will be organized in the days to come.<br \/>\nOWA superintendent Jangphun Tangjang was also present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAHARLAGUN, Mar 20: The state unit of the Indian Dental Association (IDA) on Wednesday organized a &#8216;dental awareness and oral health check-up camp&#8217; at the children&#8217;s home and the Swadhar Greh of the Oju Welfare Association (OWA) here on the occasion of the World Oral Health Day (WOHD). The programme included free dental check-up and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-62758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}