Second Edition: Oral Health and Care in Children
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Oral Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 4395
Special Issue Editors
Interests: dental caries; oral disease prevention; oral-related epidemiological investigations; clinical trials; systematic review; qualitative research
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Interests: preventive dentistry; community dentistry; fluorides; dental caries
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is the second edition of the Special Issue “Oral Health and Care in Children”: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/special_issues/Oral_Health_Care_Children.
Although dental care technology has generally improved in recent decades, oral diseases still affect a considerable number of children worldwide. Dental caries is the most common noncommunicable disease among children. The prevalence of early childhood caries is high in preschool children, particularly in developing countries. Traumatic dental injuries are not uncommon. Malocclusion caused by abnormal habits, aberrant soft tissue, and premature contact should be identified and corrected early. These oral diseases and conditions, if they remain untreated, can cause deleterious effects on children, such as pain and infection, interfered chewing ability, reduced nutrition intake, malocclusion, and the unsatisfactory growth as well as development of a child. To address oral health problems in children, dentists, dental researchers, and dental public health sectors should understand the oral health situations of children, assess their oral healthcare needs, and develop effective oral healthcare strategies.
This Special Issue welcomes original research, reviews, and case reports (with good-quality photos) related to oral health and care in children, which can include, but are not limited to, oral health promotion, the assessment or management of oral health diseases as well as conditions of children, oral healthcare strategies and programmes for children, and novel oral healthcare protocols for children. Oral healthcare strategies can be considered at both the individual and community levels.
This Special Issue will provide readers with up-to-date information on oral health and care in children and raise the awareness of clinical practitioners and dental researchers regarding the importance of children’s oral health and care.
Dr. Sherry Shiqian Gao
Prof. Dr. Chun Hung Chu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- children
- pediatric dentistry
- early childhood caries
- dental trauma
- traumatic dental injuries
- malocclusion
- oral healthcare
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