Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Recommendations and Reports, November 30, 2001 / Vol. 50 / No. RR-21

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• Alternative Title:
  Promoting Oral Health : Interventions for Preventing Dental Caries, Oral and Pharyngeal Cancers, and Sports-Related Craniofacial Injuries : A Report on Recommendations of the Task Force on Community Preventive Services
• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Recommendations and Reports
• Personal Author:
  Gooch, Barbara F. ; Sulemana, Iddrisu ; Truman, Benedict I. ; Horowitz, Alice M. ; Gift, Helen C. ; Evans, Caswell A.
• Corporate Authors:
  Task Force on Community Preventive Services (U.S.) ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  The Task Force on Community Preventive Services (the Task Force) has conducted systematic reviews of the evidence of effectiveness of selected population-based interventions to prevent and control dental caries (tooth decay), oral (mouth) and pharyngeal (throat) cancers, and sports-related craniofacial injuries. The Task Force strongly recommends community water fluoridation and school-based or school-linked pit and fissure sealant delivery programs for prevention and control of dental caries. Using the rules of evidence it has established, the Task Force found insufficient evidence of effectiveness or ineffectiveness of the remaining interventions reviewed. Therefore, the Task Force makes no recommendation for or against use of statewide or communitywide sealant promotion programs, population-based interventions for early detection of precancers and cancers, or population-based interventions to encourage use of helmets, facemasks, and mouthguards to reduce oral-facial trauma in contact sports. The Task Force's finding of insufficient evidence indicates the need for more research on intervention effectiveness. Until the results of such research become available, readers are encouraged to judge the usefulness of these interventions by other criteria. This report presents additional information regarding the recommendations, briefly describes how the reviews were conducted, and provides information designed to help apply the strongly recommended interventions locally.
• Subjects:
  Dental Caries / Prevention & Control Facial Injuries Health Promotion Mouth Neoplasms
• Source:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Recommendations and Reports, 2001; v. 50, no. 21
• Series:
  Recommendations and Reports: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  1057-5987 (print) ; 1545-8601 (digital)
• Document Type:
  Journal Issue
• Pages in Document:
  24 pdf pages
• Volume:
  50
• Issue:
  21
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
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