Asian Preventive Oral Health Map
Pilot preview v0.1 · public sources only

What does Asia teach, and do, to prevent oral disease?

One verified profile per country and per dental school. What is taught, what policy requires, and how strong the evidence is, with every gap shown openly.

We don’t ask people to complete a survey. We show them what is missing.

See what is documented How profiles are built
Map of Asia showing documentation coverage South Korea and Malaysia have open profiles. Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines are planned. Other countries are not yet documented. Vietnam Uzbekistan Turkmenistan Timor-Leste Thailand Tajikistan Taiwan Sri Lanka Singapore Russia Papua New Guinea Pakistan North Korea Nepal Mongolia Maldives Laos Kyrgyzstan Kazakhstan India China Cambodia Myanmar Brunei Bhutan Bangladesh Afghanistan South Korea — profile open Philippines — planned Malaysia — profile open Japan — planned Indonesia — planned Indonesia Japan South Korea Malaysia Philippines

Every pale country is an open invitation.

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Profiles open: South Korea, Malaysia
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National policy indicators documented
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Dental school profiles documented
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Japan, Indonesia, Philippines next
What a profile is

Every finding comes with its evidence

Community water fluoridation Discontinued. First programme Jinhae 1981, peak 2001 (31 areas), all programmes suspended as of 2018. DOCUMENTED J Korean Acad Oral Health 2021;45(2) checked 13 Oct 2026 1 Indicator 3 Status = strength of evidence 2 Finding: “No” and “Discontinued” are answers 4 Source, linked 5 Date checked
One item from the South Korea profile. Every item on every profile carries these five parts; the status describes the evidence, never the answer.
Coverage today

Two countries open. Three planned. The rest is invitation.

Policy indicator South KoreaMalaysiaJapanIndonesiaPhilippines
Oral health or profession legislation✓✓
National oral health plan✓◐
Community water fluoridation✓✓
Child preventive-care programme✓
Preventive care in public coverage✓+
School-based oral health◐✓
Licensing examination◐+
Mandatory service after graduation+✓
Accreditation of dental education+
✓Documented ✓Documented “No / Discontinued” ◐Partial +Not yet documented Planned country Not on profile
National prevention policy, two countries open. Hover a cell for the finding and its source. A documented “No” is a finding, not a gap.
South Korea2 / 11
Seoul National, Kyungpook National documented · 9 waiting
Malaysia0 / 6
Universiti Malaya in draft · 5 waiting · private schools to be listed
Profile documented Draft Waiting for one official document
Dental school profiles. Each square is a school; hover for its name. One catalog or syllabus from a faculty member starts a profile.
Completeness: the share of a profile backed by a cited source. It says how much we know, not how well a country prevents disease.
Status of every item

Every item tells you how much to trust it

1Not yetdocumented 2Documented 3Community-reviewed 4Institutionallyverified ✓ 1 linked document document alumni review official document faculty confirmation + one linkeddocument + review without objection + confirmation + document, about the same content signals only, never rewrites the only path to ✓
How an item climbs. Community feedback flags an item for review and never rewrites it; only a faculty confirmation with an official document reaches the top step.

“No” is an answer, not a blank. Korea’s water fluoridation ended in 2018. That is documented, and it tells researchers as much as a programme that continues.

What is measured, what is judged

Two numbers on the map, and a third that waits

Official documents laws · catalogs · papers extracted counted ON THE MAP · DAY ONE Measurement facts courses, hours, programmes, dates ON THE MAP · DAY ONE Data completeness share of indicators with a source validation literature → indicators → expert weighting → validation NOT SHOWN YET Performance index shown after validation
Everything measurable is measured; what we judge is scored only after validation. The index is a research project of its own and waits behind the gate.
Explore first. Contribute what you know. Verify what you can document.

Living, verified profiles rather than one-off surveys that age the moment they are published.

Move the map

This map is incomplete, on purpose.

Faculty, curriculum staffteach or run a programme Students, alumnistudied there, in years they can name Researchers, ministriesknow the statute, plan or notice Country focal pointone academic who owns updates DOCUMENTEDitem gains a linked source COMMUNITY-REVIEWEDa signal; never rewrites INSTITUTIONALLY VERIFIED ✓the only path to the top Country opensJapan · Indonesia · Philippines one official document confirmation + official document what was taught, placed by study years statute · plan · notice · paper owns one country’s updates
Who contributes and what their input becomes. Status always describes the evidence; a documented No counts as much as a documented Yes.
How to contribute About the pilot