title: Child temperament is as strongly associated with early childhood caries (ECC) as poor feeding practices: positive temperament appears protective, negative temperament may increase ECC risk.
authors.affiliation: Associate Secretary to Healthy Child Committee of Cabinet and Executive Director, Science and Policy, Healthy Child Manitoba Office, Government of Manitoba; Research Scientist, Manitoba Centre for Health Policy; Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, 3rd Floor - 332, Bannatyne Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3A 0E2, Tel.: +1204 945 8670. Electronic address: rob.santos@gov.mb.ca.
authors.forename: Robert G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.affiliation: Associate Professor, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 238 Brauer Hall, CB #7450, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7450, USA, Tel.: +1 919 537 3955. Electronic address: rocio_quinonez@unc.edu.
authors.forename: Rocio
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Quinonez
mesh_terms: D003731:Dental Caries / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013694:Temperament