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Reducing Early Childhood Caries Through Caregiver-Targeted Interventions

Marco Cunicelli, DO,
Lancaster General Hospital Family and Community Medicine Residency Program, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

American Family Physician. 2025;112(5):486.

Author disclosure: No relevant financial relationships.

This clinical content conforms to AAFP criteria for CME.

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These are summaries of reviews from the Cochrane Library.

This series is coordinated by Corey D. Fogleman, MD, assistant medical editor.

A collection of Cochrane for Clinicians published in AFP is available at https://www.aafp.org/afp/cochrane.

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