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Research out of the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health suggests preventive dental care provided by a dentist for children before the age of 2 enrolled in Medicaid in Alabama may lead to more care long-term. Early preventive dental care was associated with more frequent subsequent treatment for tooth decay, more visits and more spending on dental care, compared with no early preventive dental care for children, according to a study.
The American Academy of Pediatrics, American Dental Association and American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry recommend children see a dentist once baby teeth begin to come in; but limited evidence is available about the effectiveness of early preventive dental care or whether primary care providers can deliver it. Despite the focus on preventive dental care, dental caries, such as tooth decay or cavities, are on the rise in children under the age of 5.
The study, published in JAMA Pediatrics, compared tooth decay-related treatment, visits and dental expenditures for children receiving preventive dental care from a dentist or primary care provider, and those receiving no preventive dental care.
[...] "Adding to a limited body of literature on early preventive dental care, we observed little evidence of the benefits of this care, regardless of the provider. In fact, preventive dental care from dentists appears to increase caries-related treatment, which is surprising. Additional research among other populations and beyond administrative data may be necessary to elucidate the true effects of early preventive dental care," the study concluded.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 01 2017, @09:33PM (4 children)
Stop feeding your kids soda. It's sugar that rots teeth.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 02 2017, @01:35AM (1 child)
The faster all your teeth are gone the less time you'll need to spend at the dentist or worrying about the food you're eating. If I had no teeth, I'd eat a lemon a day. But since I still have teeth, I can't eat any lemons anymore :(
(Score: 2, Touché) by butthurt on Thursday March 02 2017, @03:41AM
Getting dentures generally entails visits to a dentist.
(Score: 2) by bootsy on Thursday March 02 2017, @10:26AM (1 child)
I woud add fruit juice to that list as well. It's lethal. All these Fruit Shoot style drinks as well.
They are worse than sweets and chocolate as they coat the teeth with a sticky layer of sugar that brushing struggles to remove, especially between the teeth.
In fact beer and lager aren't too much bettter either from that point of view although I would hope we don't give our 2 years old too much of that anyway.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Thursday March 02 2017, @06:54PM
I've always noticed that my teeth seem particularly clean after a night of drinking, even if I passed out without brushing. I've always attributed it to the alcohol -- I figure no matter how much sugar is in those drinks, if it's somewhere north of 30% vodka there's not many germs left to rot anything :)
Point being...skip the beer, put the alcohol in the fruit juice, solve both problems at once!