title: Family oral health education.
abstract: This article focuses on the family's role in the oral health status of children and the impact parents can have on the prevention of early childhood caries. Parents play a vital role in filtering the interaction between children and their environment through the feeding habits, oral hygiene care, and other preventive practices and services they make available to their children. Predisposing, enabling, and reinforcing factors affect parents' ability to instill healthy oral habits into a child's daily routine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Dentistry in Richmond, USA.
authors.forename: Tegwyn H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Brickhouse
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004037:Diet, Cariogenic; D005192:Family Health; D006267:Health Education, Dental / Q000379:methods*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D057220:Health Literacy / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009909:Oral Health; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010353:Patient Education as Topic