Decades of research demonstrate how preventive oral health practices can help decrease the development of certain oral health conditions, including dental caries, or cavities. Preventive oral healthcare starts good oral hygiene practices, such as brushing with fluoridated toothpaste, drinking fluoridated water, flossing daily, chewing sugar free gum, and avoiding excess sugar and fermentable carbohydrates, and not smoking. Prevention also includes addressing socio-economic and racial/ethnic inequalities that impact access to oral healthcare and education. .
Find out more about how evidenced-based preventive practices can address gaps in oral healthcare and reduce the prevalence of dental caries and other oral health conditions in this review of published research.
Women, Infants and Children <5
Children and Adolescents
2012 - Journal of Dental Research. Inequalities in dental attendance throughout the life-course.
2000 - JAMA. Disparities in children's oral health and access to dental care
Working Age Adults
2022 - PLoS One. Oral health inequality in Canada, the United States and United Kingdom.
2020 - Annual Review of Public Health. Disparities in Access to Oral Health Care
2018 - Journal of Dental Research. Racial Inequalities in Oral Health
2016 - JAMA. Addressing Social Determinants of Health and Health Inequalities
Older Adults
Women, Infants and Children <5
2011 – Journal of Dental Research. Oral Health and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes – What’s Next?
Children and Adolescents
2017 - Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology. Effectiveness of oral health education on oral hygiene and dental caries in schoolchildren: Systematic review and meta-analysis
2014 - Pediatrics. Maintaining and Improving the Oral Health of Young Children
2014 - Pediatrics. Office-based preventive dental program and statewide trends in dental caries
Working Age Adults
2016 - National Academy of Medicine. Dental Caries Management in Children and Adults
2004 - Public Health Nutrition. Diet, nutrition and the prevention of dental diseases.
Older Adults
Women, Infants and Children <5
2008 - Journal of Dental Research. Fluoride Varnish Efficacy in Preventing Early Childhood Caries.
Children and Adolescents
2014 - Pediatrics. Fluoride use in caries prevention in the primary care setting.
Working Age Adults
2011 - Monographs in Oral Science. Mechanisms of action of fluoride for caries control.
2004 - Medical Principles and Practice. Fluoride varnishes in caries prevention
Older Adults
Women, Infants and Children <5
Children and Adolescents
Working Age Adults
1994 - The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Carbohydrates and dental health.
Older Adults
Women, Infants and Children <5
Children and Adolescents
Working Age Adults
2023 - Frontiers in Oral Health. A concise review of chewing gum as an anti-cariogenic agent
2019 - Brazilian Nursing Journal. Effect of chewing gum on thirst: an integrative review
2012 - Journal of the Irish Dental Association. The oral health benefits of chewing gum
Older Adults
Women, Infants and Children <5
Children and Adolescents
Working Age Adults
Older Adults
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