Free dental care enough to prevent dental caries

It is reported that the universal free dental care can not remove children of different socio-economic background of the situation Dental difference.

University of Michigan School of Dentistry, Dr Ismail and Sohn in a first-year Canadian study of children found that the dental health of children with them at home with the dental health of parents and their level of education are closely related.

Researchers on Nova Scotia's 1200 first-year children's dental records and dental health assessment of the situation. Nova Scotia from 1975 began to provide free public dental care, so all these children from birth to accept the care.

The researchers asked the parents that the adoption of children in dental care, and to check their dental caries and other bad performance.

Ismail and Sohn reported that more than 9 percent of the children for the first time in the dentist took place before the age of 2, after the examinations every year. However, university-educated parents, children and parents affected by the low level of education of children, their dental caries, dental fillings or other signs of bad teeth less.

The researchers also found that the school fluoride in drinking water can be added to improve children's dental health. School drinking water fluoride levels of the ideal level of fluoride for children and poor children compared to less tooth decay, bad teeth, only the number of the latter half.

Ismail and Sohn that the provision of dental care and can not eliminate the differences in people's teeth healthy. Other factors such as the health of oral hygiene and fluoride can be used to reduce children's dental caries.

"To improve the oral health can not only through the provision of professional dental care to achieve. But through family and community-based preventive measures, comprehensive plan to promote oral hygiene, such as school education, as well as the mass media propaganda."