Promoting Infant Oral Health Care

Clinical guideline on infant oral health care.

Purpose The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) recognizes that infant oral health is the foundation upon which preventive education and dental care must be built to enhance the opportunity for a lifetime free from preventable oral disease. Recognizing that allied health professionals and community organizations must be involved as partners to achieve this goal, the AAPD proposes rec...

Guideline on infant oral health care.

Purpose The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) recognizes that infant oral health is one of the foundations upon which preventive education and dental care must be built to enhance the opportunity for a lifetime free from preventable oral disease. The AAPD proposes recommendations for preventive strategies, oral health risk assessment, anticipatory guidance, and therapeutic interven...

Primary care physicians' role in promoting children's oral health.

Despite the fact that dental caries are preventable with ageappropriate and effective caries management through periodic dental visits, many children experience dental decay. Based on The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, more than a quarter of US children age 2 to 5 years and more than half of the children age 6 to 8 years had dental caries in the period of 1999–2004. The 2007-...

Infant Oral Health

Guideline on Perinatal and Infant Oral Health Care.