Friday, April 4, 2008

Weight and Dental Health Among Kids

A few weeks ago I spent time in a brainstorming session figuring out the St. David's Health Foundation Dental Program might be able to use their access to schools to help combat childhood obesity. It was a great meeting (and how often is that the case?), with a lot of interesting ideas on how their existing partnerships and access to kids could put them in a unique position to do some great work on childhood obesity interventions.

That meeting is probably the only reason this story from WebMD caught my attention, about how kids' weight affects their dental health. The original study was in Community Dentistry & Oral Epidemiology, with the research mostly raising more questions than it answered.

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