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The new programs will assess the best way to reach susceptible young children and their caregivers to prevent early childhood caries and reduce oral health disparities. Early childhood caries is a particularly devastating form of dental caries in young children. General anesthesia is often required for treatment of early childhood caries, making it an expensive and traumatic condition to treat, said Jane Weintraub, DDS, MPH, professor and chair of the Division of Oral Epidemiology and Dental Public Health at UCSF.
"We need to get out the message that healthy baby teeth are important for children's health and well-being," said Weintraub, who is the principal investigator for the CAN DO Center. "We have an easy, relatively low-cost strategy fluoride varnish painted on the child's teeth that helps to help prevent teeth from decaying and causing children to have toothaches and difficulty eating, sleeping and speaking."
Weintraub said this funding will enable the UCSF program to forge new partnerships with dental, medical and primary care colleagues, as well as with the federally-funded Women, Infants and Children (WIC) health and nutrition program, to create effective ways of improving children's oral health in non-traditional settings.
"We're hoping that children across the state and nationally will benefit from these projects with improved oral health, health and quality of life," she said. "In this country, all young children should have healthy smiles and not suffer from toothaches."
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