Education Is the Key

By Edward H. Moody, Jr, DDS

February is National Children’s Dental Health Month—a time when the dental profession focuses on bringing awareness to the importance of children’s oral health and its relationship to overall health. Unfortunately, achieving optimal dental health in American children remains a work in progress. Few population groups are more vulnerable to oral disease than young children, and early childhood caries (ECC) remains far too common. Children of low socioeconomic status and those belonging to racial/ethnic minority groups continue to be affected disproportionally, and data show that poor diet, lack of parental education, and poverty make these children 32 times more likely to develop ECC.^1,2

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