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child dental health  

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  • Despite advances in dental science and notable preventive efforts, dental decay (caries) continues to cause untold childhood pain and dysfunction around the globe and remains the single most common chronic childhood disease in the United States. In the United States, dental decay is five times as common as asthma and seven times as common as hay fever. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Health; Child Dental Health]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-FVKG2JFL-3

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