Dental Health Needs of Children and Adolescents

Abstract

Dental experts testified that total health care for children must include dental health care. Recommendations were made to the panel to deal with the reports that half of all school age children have some form of malocclusion and gingival disease and that dental caries is the most common dental disease in the United States and the primary cause of tooth loss. Dental experts testified that total health care for children must include dental health care. Recommendations were made to the panel to deal with the reports that half of all school age children have some form of malocclusion and gingival disease and that dental caries is the most common dental disease in the United States and the primary cause of tooth loss.