Bu matnda zubochelyustnykh anomalii razvitiyasi profilaktikasi haqida ma'lumotlar berilgan. Profilaktika zubochelyustnykh anomalii - eto kompleks meropriyatii, napravlennykh na preduprezhdenie i ystranenie etiologicheskikh i patogeneticheskikh faktorov, sposobstvuyushchikh vozniknoveniyu zubochelyustnykh anomalii. V zadachi profilaktiki vklyuchayutsya polozhitelnoe vozdeystvie na obshchee sostoyanie beremennykh i detey, a takzhe organizatsionnye i lechebnye meropriyatiya, obespechivayushchie vyyavlenie i ystranenie zubochelyustnykh anomalii u detey, podrostkov i vzroslykh. Pri vypolnenii osnovnykh zadach profilaktiki differentsiruyut piat' periodov formirovaniya zubochelyustnoi sistemy s uchetom ee fiziologicheskikh, morfologicheskikh i funktsional'nykh izmenenii: I - Vnutriutrobnnoe razvitie embriona i ploda (formirovanie tkaney i organov v zubochelyustnoi oblasti); II - Deti pervogo goda zhizni (period nachala prorezvaniya vremennykh zubov).