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Nursing caries and the importance of oral health promotion of 0 to 4 year-old children

The aim of this study was to analyse the preventive and educative practice in Dentistry for infants, emphasizing the nursing caries, and mainly the parents' role in the beginning and development of this disturbance as well as their importance on their babies health care, and the social, educative and also politic importance of the dental professional on the oral health of babies.

Oral health; Bottle feeding; Dental caries; Preventive dentistry


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