tailieunhanh - Guideline on Infant Oral Health Care

The recent downturn in the world economy has had a far-reaching impact across industries and has led to a temporary easing of the nursing shortage in some countries. Leading health workforce analysts, including Dr. Peter Buerhaus from Vanderbilt University, have documented this shift in employment, but cautioned against slowing down the production of new nurses to avoid putting the public’s health at risk (Tri-Council for Nursing, 2010). The same factors that intensified the last nursing shortage, including an aging patient population and the graying nursing workforce, are still present and will likely instigate a more severe nursing shortage once usual. | REFERENCE MANUAL V4 4 NO6 1 2 13 Guideline on Infant Oral Health Care Originating Committee Clinical Affairs Committee - Infant Oral Health Subcommittee Review Council Council on Clinical Affairs Adopted 1986 Revised 1989 1994 2001 2004 2009 2011 2012 Purpose The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry AAPD recognizes that infant oral health is one of the foundations upon which preventive education and dental care must be built to enhance the opportunity for a lifetime free from preventable oral disease. The AAPD proposes recommendations for preventive strategies oral health risk assessment anticipatory guidance and therapeutic interventions to be followed by dental medical nursing and allied health professional programs. Methods This guideline is an update of the previous Guideline on Infant Oral Health Care revised in 2009. This revision included a hand search of literature as well as a new search of the MEDLINE PubMed electronic database using the following parameters Terms infant oral health infant oral health care and early childhood caries Fields all Limits within the last 10 years humans English and clinical trials. Papers for review were chosen from the resultant list of 449 articles and from references within selected articles. When data did not appear sufficient or were inconclusive recommendations were based upon expert and or consensus opinion by experienced researchers and clinicians. Background The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that caries is the most prevalent infectious disease in our nation s More than 40 of children have caries by the time they reach In contrast to declining prevalence of dental caries among children in older age groups the prevalence of caries in poor US children under the age of 5 is Early childhood caries ECC and the more severe form of ECC S-ECC can be particularly virulent forms of caries beginning soon after tooth eruption developing on smooth surfaces progressing .