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Community-based population-level interventions for promoting child oral health

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posted on 2016-09-15, 00:00 authored by A M de Silva, Shalika Hegde, B Akudo Nwagbara, Hanny CalacheHanny Calache, M G Gussy, M Nasser, H R Morrice, E Riggs, P M Leong, L K Meyenn, R Yousefi-Nooraie
Authors' conclusions

This review provides evidence of low certainty suggesting that community-based oral health promotion interventions that combine oral health education with supervised toothbrushing or professional preventive oral care can reduce dental caries in children. Other interventions, such as those that aim to promote access to fluoride, improve children's diets or provide oral health education alone, show only limited impact. We found no clear indication of when is the most effective time to intervene during childhood. Cost-effectiveness, long-term sustainability and equity of impacts and adverse outcomes were not widely reported by study authors, limiting our ability to make inferences on these aspects. More rigorous measurement and reporting of study results would improve the quality of the evidence.

History

Journal

Cochrane database of systematic reviews

Issue

9

Season

Article number: CD009837

Article number

CD009837

Pagination

1 - 151

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Location

Chichester, Eng.

ISSN

1361-6137

eISSN

1469-493X

Language

eng

Publication classification

C Journal article; C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2016, The Cochrane Collaboration