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Dental caries (also known as dental decay) is the most common chronic disease of childhood – five times as common as asthma (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2000). Caries is painful, expensive to treat, and can lead to tooth loss, as well as serious complications. Although almost entirely preventable on a primary level, by the end of childhood, two-thirds of individuals have experienced caries (Beltran-Aguilar et al., 2005). Caries disproportionately affects certain children, leaving other children minimally affected. This fact points to the importance of accurately identifying high-caries-risk children before they develop caries so that they can then be targeted for intensive preventive efforts. Unfortunately, in the United States, we are not yet at a point, either from the perspective of caries-risk prediction or prioritizing the oral health of vulnerable populations, that we are effectively implementing caries-preventive programs for children at high risk...

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Lewis, C.W. (2014). Dental Health During Childhood. In: Gullotta, T.P., Bloom, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Primary Prevention and Health Promotion. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5999-6_123

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