Reducing Alaska Native paediatric oral health disparities: a systematic review of oral health interventions and a case study on multilevel strategies to reduce sugar-sweetened beverage intake.
Tooth decay is the most common paediatric disease and there is a serious paediatric tooth decay epidemic in Alaska Native communities. When untreated, tooth decay can lead to pain, infection, systemic health problems, hospitalisations and in rare cases death, as well as school absenteeism, poor grad...
| Published in: | International Journal of Circumpolar Health |
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| Format: | Review |
| Language: | English |
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Atypon
2013
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.3402/ijch.v72i0.21066 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24377091 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3873640/ |
| Summary: | Tooth decay is the most common paediatric disease and there is a serious paediatric tooth decay epidemic in Alaska Native communities. When untreated, tooth decay can lead to pain, infection, systemic health problems, hospitalisations and in rare cases death, as well as school absenteeism, poor grades and low quality-of-life. The extent to which population-based oral health interventions have been conducted in Alaska Native paediatric populations is unknown. |
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