1. Speech by YB Dato’ Liow Tiong Lai. Minister of Health Malaysia in Opening
Ceremony of the 6th Conference of Pediatrics Dentistry Association Of Asia.
Main ideas
1. Oral health in general health.
- Oral health is important to general health and well-being
- Good oral health enables us to not only communicate effectively
- The impact of oral disease on both society and individuals is significant
2. Improving the oral health of children.
- Oral healthcare services for schoolchildren started around the same time
- Trained dental nurses supplement and complement dental officers to cope with
the appalling state of oral health of schoolchildren then.
3. Role of pediatric dentists.
- Children are our most treasured gifts
- The pediatric dentist works with children of all ages.
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4. Dental visit by age one year.
- Excellent oral health habits cannot begin early enough
- We need to educate parents on the importance of early oral health care for their
children.
5. Enhancing children’s oral health through multidisciplinary care.
- There are updates in management of trauma, dental anomalies and congenital
defects in children, and symposia to discuss and share experiences in providing
oral healthcare for special needs children and optimizing oral health outcomes.

2. How to break a bad habit for good
Main Ideas
1. First, you must plan ahead.
- Always aware that you will be tempted to take that last drink or light up for last
time.
- The urge is little normal and can strike any time, especially when you are under
tension
2. Secondly, you should adopt new habits.
- Replace your bad habits with very good one.
- What satisfaction did your bad habit give you?
3. Another thing you could do is to get help from family and friends.
- Must have someone to confide in when you encounter many problem and
difficulties staying off a bad habit can be of tremendous benefit.
- Always respect to your family and friends because if you have any problem, they
can help you to solve it.
4. Last but not least, reward yourself.
- To avoid a habit relapse, you need to offer yourself a substitute reward.
- The alternate reward then reinforces your motivation to succeed

3. Women’s Welfare Organization of Malaysia
Main Ideas
1) WWOM stands for “Women’s Welfare Organization of Malaysia”
- It is voluntary organization focusing on the need of battered or abuse women,
regardless of race or religion
2) We are especially concerned about women who are less educated and not
financially secure.
- Focus was on domestic abuse
3) Also concentrating on other issues, like women’s rights, AIDS, sexual abuse and
rape.
- Play a key role in counseling and providing legal aid as well as much-needed
moral support to victims
4) We carry out many programmers and activities on women’s concerns
- Can get more information through booklets, seminars, talks, the radio as well as
through the internet.

4. Outline of my speech How to smash a bad habit for better life
Greetings
- Salam sejahtera and good morning.
Introduction
- Today, I’m going to talk to you about how to break a bad habit for good. Oral
health is important to general health and well-being. Many people have tried to
break a bad habit but have failed because they have fallen victim to what
psychologists call “habit relapse”.
Contents
1) Plan your lifestyle.
- Always aware that you will be tempted to take that last drink or light up for last
time. The urge is little normal and can strike any time, especially when you are
under tension.
2) Oral health is important to general health and well-being.
- Good oral health enables us to not only communicate effectively, eat and enjoy
food but it is also enhances overall quality of life, self-esteem and social
confidence.

5. 3) You should you must get help from family and friends.
- You must have someone to confide in when you encounter many problem and
difficulties staying off a bad habit can be of tremendous benefit.
4) You should adopt new habits.
- Replace your bad habits with very good one. What satisfaction did your bad habit
give you?
5) You must reward yourself.
- If you want to avoid a habit relapse, you need to offer yourself a substitute
reward.
Conclusion
The substitute reward then reinforces your motivation to succeed. Thank you.

6. Maintain a good life style
Assalamualaikum and good morning to Pn Nor Hida Bte Ibrahim and my friends.
Today, I’m going to talk to you about how to maintain a good life style.
Oral health is important to general health and well-being. Many people have tried
to break a bad habit but have failed because they have fallen victim to what
psychologists call “habit relapse”. Good oral health enables us to not only communicate
effectively and also enhances overall quality of life. There are a few strategies you can
follow if you want to prevent habit relapse. Forget about what your bad habit is such as
drinking, gambling, smoking and excessive eating, the strategies are the same. If you
follow the strategies that I will say to you, your bad habit can be avoid.
First, you must plan your lifestyle. Always aware that you will be tempted to take
that last drink or light up for last time. The urge is little normal and can strike any time,
especially when you are under tension. The very important thing is you must be ready
for it. Think ahead of what you can do when the urge return to the habit strikes you.
After that, practice your plan so that when persuasion strikes, your action will be
automatic. You could decide to go for a walk or recall a particularly enjoyable holiday.
Seeing as tension is usually the cause for habit relapse, these two activities should
make you to relax. In addition, you also must pray to Allah to make your life better.
Next, you can get many advantages if you take care about your health.Oral
health is important to general health and well-being. Good oral health enables us to not
only communicate effectively, eat and enjoy food but it is also enhances overall quality
of life, self-esteem and social confidence. It has been said that if you don’t have good
oral health, you are not healthy.

7. After that, the impact of oral disease on both society and individuals is significant.
This is especially so for children with pain from dentally-related causes such as they
cannot eat, speak or sleep properly or concentrate in school. Although oral disease like
dental caries is generally regarded as non-life threatening and often not accorded due
importance, we must not overlook the possibility of extreme cases of untreated oral
disease. We hope this will never happen again to any child and people.
Then I will explain about disadvantages if you not care about your healthy.
Children always have problem in oral if they not learning how to improving the oral
health from their parents. Smoking makes your lung damages seriously and you cannot
do heavy activities. Why you must damages your own body? If you not care about your
healthy, you can easily get a disease such as lung cancer, heart attack and brain
cancer. Then, your friends will leave you if you have HIV or Aids in your body. So, if you
take care about your healthy, the entire situation can be avoided and you can get better
life.
Last but not least, replace your bad habits such as drinking drug and abuse sex
with very good one. What satisfaction did your bad habit give you? If smoking had
helped you to relax, replace it with meditation. It serves the same purpose, without the
harmful effects. If you twirled your pen because it gave you something to do with your
hands, learn to knit or play the game. If you start your new habit before you quit your
bad one, the you chance of success are higher because you have some other activity to
fall back on in times of tension or need. You also must always find new game to play
because it makes you happier in your life.
And finally you must prize yourself. Sometimes a person wants to reward himself after
doing a good job or after a hard day’s work. For example, they tell themselves that they
deserve the drink they have sworn to keep off or an ice cream when they are on a diet.
If you want to avoid a habit relapse, you need to offer yourself a substitute reward such

8. as “if I stay off cigarettes for one week, I will reward myself with a new hand phone”.
The alternate reward then reinforces your motivation to succeed. Thank you.