Article: DENTAL SCHOOL HELPS DOCTORS, NURSES HALT INFANT TOOTH DECAY

BALTIMORE, July 21 -- The University of Maryland at Baltimore issued the following news release:

Across the state of Maryland, there are now doctors and nurses, freshly trained in pediatric dental health care, who can help stem an alarming number of 3-year-old children who arrive for their first dentist visit with teeth "just melting away."

Many children are not seen by a dentist until they are age 3, says Norman Tinanoff, DDS, MS, professor at the University of Maryland Dental School. "And among those in low socioeconomic status, there is also often inadequate dental health education," says Tinanoff.

Dental caries disease starts in infants, as the cavity-causing bacteria are transferred ...

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