Each generation of young adults tends to repeat the same quiet mistake: leaving home, gaining independence, and quietly letting the dentist slip from the calendar. In Mount Lawley, Dr. Camelia Furlan has spent twenty-five years witnessing this drift, and this August — during Dental Health Week 2026 — she is lending her voice to the Australian Dental Association's effort to interrupt it. The campaign recognizes that the years between eighteen and twenty-five are not just a time of freedom, but a threshold where small, preventable health problems are most likely to go unseen until they become co