Oral health behaviours of parents and young children in a practice-based caries prevention trial in Northern Ireland.
Lucy O'MalleyHelen V WorthingtonMichael DonaldsonCiaran O'NeilStephen BirchSolveig NobleSeamus KilloughLynn MurphyMargaret GreerJulie BrodisonRejina VerghisMartin TicklePublished in: Community dentistry and oral epidemiology (2017)
Toothbrushing was widely adopted from a young age, but between-meal sugar consumption was highly prevalent. The results suggest that effective family-level and population-level interventions are needed to reduce sugar consumption if substantial improvements in caries prevention are to be achieved.