Caries Preventive Interventions and Oral Health Inequalities: A Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Dental caries remains one of the most prevalent but preventable diseases among children worldwide and especially affects children with a lower socioeconomic status or ethnic minority background. It is important that all groups of children are reached by preventive interventions to reduce oral health inequalities. So far, it is unknown whether children from different social and ethnic groups benefit equally from potentially effective oral health interventions.

Objectives

This scoping review aimed to identify European public health interventions that report their effect on dental caries across different social groups.

Methods

Four databases were searched for studies evaluating the effect of oral health interventions on dental caries among children from 0 to

SUBMITTER: van Meijeren-van Lunteren AW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10504820 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature