Benefits of Early Dental Care Now Hard to Refute.

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

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Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

1. The Current Status of Infant Oral Health Instruction Within Predoctoral Dental Education.Journal of dental education · 2026
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2. Beyond Binary: A Machine Learning Framework for Interpreting Organismal Behavior in Cancer Diagnostics.Biomedicines · 2025
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3. Early Childhood Caries-Prevalence, Associated Factors, and Severity: A Hospital-Based Study in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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4. Pediatrician Knowledge, Attitude and Practices on Children's Oral Health in a Tertiary Public Hospital in the Philippines: A Descriptive Study.Acta medica Philippina · 2023
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5. COVID-19 as an opportunity for minimally-invasive dentistry: a national cross-sectional survey.BMC oral health · 2022
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Corrections and comments

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  Follow-up of an Intervention to Reduce Dental Caries in Indigenous Australian Children: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial.2019

Authors and funding

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Funding

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Abstract

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