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Healthy Ageing: Don’t Brush Off Oral Health Issues

Associate Professor Dr Jacob John, Faculty of Dentistry, Universiti Malaya

23-Mar-22 16:00

Healthy Ageing: Don’t Brush Off Oral Health Issues

Many of us think that we are bound to lose our teeth as we grow older, but is that necessarily the case? Assoc Prof Dr Jacob John from the Faculty of Dentistry, Universiti Malaya joins us to look closer at common oral health issues and why it’s important for us to maintain habits to look after oral health as we age, in conjunction with World Oral Health Day (20th March).

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Produced by: Lim Sue Ann

Presented by: Lim Sue Ann


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