The Importance of the “First Dental Home” Program
We will address the issue related to the Dental Home Program established
by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAPD) to move forward on the goal of
achieving an optimal oral health and life quality of the population, ensuring
dental services for every child up to three (3) years of age, including those
with special needs and for those who are unattended, who require such care,
regardless of their economic and social status. The reason for the existence of
the Dental Home is because it has been statistically shown that tooth decay is
the most common chronic disease in children, reaching up to more than 60% of
cases before the age of five. That is, sixty (60) of every hundred (100)
children suffer from this disease in their primary teeth. It has also been
noted the increase of tooth decay in older children, since according to
statistics, in children from 11 to 17 years this present up to 90% of tooth
decay in permanent teeth.
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