Long-Term Effects of a Toddler-Focused Caries Prevention Programme Among Northwestern US Tribal Children: the Tots-To-Tweens Study.

Nicole Holdaway Smith, Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board
Tam Lutz, Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board
Gerardo Maupomé, Indiana University
Jodi Lapidus, Portland State University
Candice Jimenez, Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board
Maxine Janis, Heritage University
Eli Schwarz, Oregon Health & Science University
Thomas Becker, Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board

Abstract

We sought to determine whether American Indian tribe-based interventions that successfully prevented toddler dental caries in a 2005 cohort study (the Toddler Overweight and Tooth Decay Prevention Study, or TOTS) influenced the prevalence of dental caries in children ages 11 to 13 in the same communities ten years later (the TOTS-to-Tweens study).