Using anticipatory guidance to provide early dental intervention

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Pediatric preventive dentistry based on anticipatory guidance may help clinicians assess an individual child's risk for oral diseases. Anticipatory guidance is the provision of developmentally-appropriate, preventive oral health information. Dentists begin seeing children before they reach three years of age and have an opportunity to provide expanded preventive services. Early intervention can prevent dental injuries and dental malformation from thumb sucking and allow identification of inherited conditions, speech or language problems, or child abuse. Anticipatory guidance fosters clinician-parent interaction and receives strong parental support. Dentists who wish to initiate an anticipatory guidance program should develop content areas organized around developmental milestones, collect educational materials, create a data collection form, and educate staff.

Care and treatment, Models, Teeth, Pedodontics, Pediatric dentistry, Preventive dentistry

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Effects of oral habits' duration on dental characteristics in the primary dentition

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Babies who suck their thumb or a pacifier after the age of one may develop an overbite and other types of malocclusion, according to a study of 372 children. Malocclusion means the top and bottom teeth do not meet when the child closes his or her mouth. Only 2% of the children in this study had never sucked a pacifier or their thumb or finger.

Fabricated rubber products, not elsewhere classified, All Other Rubber Product Manufacturing, Rubber Nipples & Pacifiers, Risk factors, Malocclusion, Pacifiers (Infant care), Sucking behavior, Pacifiers (Baby supplies), Thumb sucking, Sucking behaviour

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Dental caries prevalence and dental care utilization among the very old

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The need for dental care among the elderly will increase as more elderly people keep most of their teeth, according to a survey of 449 people 65 years old and older. Ninety-six percent had a history of tooth decay, one-fourth of which was recurring. Three-quarters had visited a dentist in the previous year.

Aged, Elderly, Demographic aspects, Dental caries, Dental care, Dental care services

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