UNDERSTANDING THEN ACTION
In its fields of activity, orthodontics – a medical discipline in its own right – applies the definition of health that was adopted by the World Health Association: “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
Recently this definition was been completed by the ability to live a full social, economic and spirituel life, to prosper without fear of future, to acquire skills through education and learning, to engage in productive and meaningful work, to be treated fairly without discrimination, to dwell in a safe environement and to cope with the normal stresses of life.
Health, therefore, corresponds to a state of equilibrium and harmony in respect of all the possibilities being human implies: biological, cultural, morphological, hereditary, functional, aesthetic, psychological, behavioural, sociological, ethical, environmental, spiritual and temporal, and the list goes on.