Progress in Children's Oral Health Since the Surgeon General's Report on Oral Health

Mouradian, Wendy E.; Slayton, Rebecca L.; Maas, William R.; Kleinman, Dushanka V.; Slavkin, Harold C.; DePaola, Dominick P.; Evans, Caswell A.; Wilentz, Joan

doi:10.1016/j.acap.2009.09.023

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“…In the United States, children from families with low socioeconomic status are at greater risk for experiencing dental caries and are 12 times more likely to miss school days because of dental disease than children from higher income families. 1 In this review, the authors suggest that secondhand smoke may be used as a marker for low socioeconomic status, unhealthy dietary choices, and poor oral hygiene practices. Even after adjusting for socioeconomic factors, the association between childhood dental caries and secondhand smoke remained strong.…”

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Exposure to Secondhand Smoke may Cause Dental Caries in Children

Slayton

2012

Journal of Evidence Based Dental Practice

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Exposure to Secondhand Smoke may Cause Dental Caries in Children

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2012

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“…A number of biomarkers are also available for screening. Yet, enormous health disparities continue between young and younger Americans according to traditional socioeconomic factors .…”

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“…Despite the advances in genomics, the microbiome, proteomics, epigenetics, and bioinformatics over the last 18 years, and various workshops and published papers as relevance and advocacy for genomics within professional oral health education , very few US dental schools enable students to learn and utilize the principles and applications of genomics to improve craniofacial‐oral‐dental diseases and disorders . Several reports from the National Academy of Medicine (previously the Institute of Medicine, IOM) highlight the potential role of the oral health professions to address craniofacial, oral, and dental diseases as well as a number of chronic diseases .…”

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From high definition precision healthcare to precision public oral health: opportunities and challenges

Slavkin

2018

J Public Health Dent

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In anticipation of a major transformation in healthcare, this review provides highlights that anticipate the near future for oral public health (and beyond). Personalized or precision healthcare reflects the expectation that advances in genomics, imaging, and other domains will extend our risk assessment, diagnostic, and prognostic capabilities, and enables more effective prevention and therapeutic options for all Americans. Meanwhile, the current healthcare system does not meet cost, access, or quality criteria for all Americans. It is now an imperative that the success of “smart,” quality, and cost‐effective high definition precision healthcare requires a public health perspective for several reasons: a) to enhance generalizability, b) to assess methods of implementation, and c) to focus on both risk and prevention in large and small populations, thereby providing a balance between the generation of long‐term knowledge and short‐term health gains. Sensitivity and resolution, reasonable cost, access to all Americans, coordinated comprehensive care, and advances in whole genome sequencing (WGS) and big data analyses, coupled to other advances in biotechnology and digital/artificial intelligence/machine learning devices, and the behavioral, social, and environmental sciences, offer remarkable opportunities to improve the health and wellness of the American people [genotype + phenotype + environment + behavior = high definition healthcare]. The opportunity is to significantly improve the well‐being and life expectancy of all people across the lifespan including the least‐advantaged people in our society and potentially increase access, reduce the national costs, and improve health outcomes.

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“…Dental caries is the most commonly reported oral/ chronic health disease in children [3,4]. This disease has been further recognized as a pandemic whose prevalence rates in children in the European countries, the UK, Japan, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Indonesia, have been reported by 40%, 12%, 25%, 36-85%, 38-45%, 22-61%, and 90% respectively.…”

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Predictors of oral health-related quality of life in 2–5 year-old children in the South of Iran

Abbasi-Shavazi

Mansoorian

Jambarsang

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Background Dental and oral diseases can have negative impacts on children’s quality of life. The aim of this study was to determine the predictors of oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) in the children aged 2–5 years old. Materials and methods A total number of 288 children aged between 2 and 5 years were selected and stratified by gender from three community health centres located in the city of Jahrom, south of Fars Province, Iran. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire whose validity and reliability was confirmed. The questionnaire was completed by parents/caregivers of the children. A multiple linear regression analysis was performed with quality of life as the dependent variable and, based on covariance structural analysis, evaluated the goodness of fit of the resulting structural equations models. Results The results showed that predisposing factors with a coefficient of 0.0457 (p = 0.015) and reinforcing factors ones with a coefficient of 0.2748 (p < 0.001) were correlated with the oral health behaviours. Moreover, there was a relationship between such behaviours with a coefficient of 0.1612 (p < 0.001) and oral health status and the given status with a coefficient − 0.9714 was correlated with OHRQoL (p < 0.001). Based on the covariance structural analysis, the resulting model was found to exhibit a reasonable goodness of fit. Conclusion The predictors of the children’s OHRQoL included predisposing, strengthening, oral health behaviours and oral health status. Therefore, planning to enhance supportive family behaviours and to boost predisposing factors including knowledge, attitudes, perceived benefits, and self-efficacy in parents and their oral health behaviours is recommended.

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Progress in Children's Oral Health Since the Surgeon General's Report on Oral Health

Cited by 11 publications

References 24 publications

Exposure to Secondhand Smoke may Cause Dental Caries in Children

Exposure to Secondhand Smoke may Cause Dental Caries in Children

From high definition precision healthcare to precision public oral health: opportunities and challenges

Predictors of oral health-related quality of life in 2–5 year-old children in the South of Iran

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