Okazanie stomatologicheskoy pomoshchi naseleniyu yavlyaetsya aktual'noy zadachey. V nastoyashchee vremya v strukture stomatologicheskikh zabolevaniy u naseleniya, a v chastnosti detey i beremennykh Rossii prevaliruet karies i zabolevaniya parodonta. Poetomu sovershenstvovanie stomatologicheskoy pomoshchi naseleniya yavlyaetsya vazhnoy problemoy prakticheskogo zdravookhraneniya. Monografiya posvyashchena aktual'nomu razdelu Gigienicheskomu obucheniyu i vospitaniya - Stomatologicheskoe prosveshchenie, kotoroe aktivno nachalo vnedryat'sya osobenno v poslednee desyatiletie. Osnovnye voprosy, rassmotrennye v monografii, otrazhayut osnovnye voprosy propagandy zdorovogo obraza zhizni sredi naseleniya, gigienicheskim meropriyatiyam, motivirovanie naselenie k podderzhaniyu stomatologicheskogo zdorov'ya, provedenie stomatologicheskogo prosveshcheniya sredi vospitateley DDU i rabotnikov narodnogo obrazovaniya, sredi meditsinskogo (ne stomatologicheskogo) personala, anketirovanie naseleniya, otsenka effektivnosti stomatologicheskogo prosveshcheniya, ratsional'noy gigiene polosti rta, stomatologicheskim zabolevaniyam i ikh profilaktike.