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Early Childhood Caries and the Role of Pediatricians in its Prevention
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1Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, ramazani77@gmail.com, Iran
2Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Iran
3Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Shahed University, Iran
4Department of Endodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Iran
*Corresponding Author: Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, ramazani77@gmail.com, Iran. Tel: +98-541-2423218. Fax: + 98-541-2414003. Email: ramazani77@gmail.com
Published online:Dec 31, 2010
Article type:Review Article
Received:Dec 01, 2009
Accepted:Feb 01, 2010
How to Cite:Ramazani N, Poureslami H, Ahmadi R, Ramazani M. Early Childhood Caries and the Role of Pediatricians in its Prevention. J Compr Ped. 2010;2(2):. doi:
Abstract
The aim of this study is to review the existing literature about early childhood caries and the role of pediatricians in regards to prevention of this condition. Early childhood caries is a multi-factorial disease and several factors are implicated in its establishment. Control of this disease is very difficult and affected children have diminished oral health-related quality of life. Taking all evidence together, we propose that physicians and specially pediatricians have an important task to help parents in preventing early childhood caries by delivering suitable and organized information.
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© 2010, Author(s). This open-access article is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which allows for unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.
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