[Collaboration of oral care and well-child care: for better preventive dentistry]. / Samenwerking mondzorg en jeugdgezondheidszorg; voor betere tandheelkundige preventie.

The new Dutch clinical practice guideline Oral Care for Children and Young People advises parents to visit the oral care professional before or from the eruption of the first tooth, because oral care starts with the first deciduous tooth. However, this is not yet standard for everyone. Still, almost all parents of newborns (> 95%) visit well-baby clinics with their newborn. This article describes how well-baby clinics and oral care can collaborate and how in the Netherlands, young children and their parents can be contacted earlier for (preventive) dental care. There are a few examples of projects in which well-child clinics and oral care collaborate, such as the Gezonde Peutermonden project (toddlers' healthy mouths project), the GigaGaaf project (giga whole project) and the case of a practice in Haarlem, in the Schalkwijk district. Because these projects are still in progress, it is not yet clear whether a collaboration between well-child clinics and oral care will also have an effect on the caries prevalence in children.

[Impact of the corona lockdown on daily oral health care behaviour of young children]. / Impact van corona-lockdown op het dagelijks mondgezondheidsgedrag van jonge kinderen.

This study explores the possible effects of the current corona pandemic and the ensuing measures on parental oral care behaviour, particularly during the lockdown period. Moreover, this study examines to what extent these effects differ according to the educational level of the parents. In total, 120 parents of children aged 4-5 years completed a digital questionnaire about parental oral care behaviour. The results show that during the coronavirus lockdown, 26% of parents skipped toothbrushing more often in the morning, 44% let their child snack more often, and 22% let their child drink sweetened drinks more often. In addition, parents with a high educational level skipped tooth brushing in the morning more often than parents with a low educational level. In contrast, parents with a low educational level skipped toothbrushing more often in the evening than parents with a high educational level. The results of this small study suggest that the coronavirus lockdown affected parental oral care behaviour.