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American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) A Practical Guide to Infant Oral Health
This guide is designed to help physicians examine children's teeth for defects and cavities at every well-child visit. The guide is broken down in sections including: oral etiology, oral health promotion, birth to 3 months of age, 4 months of age, 6 to 12 months of age, and 15 months and older.

Access to Baby and Child Dentistry (ABCD): A Manual for Dental Providers
Developed by the University of Washington, School of Dentistry, this guide is for clinicians who intend to implement effective preventive and early intervention oral health therapies for infants and toddlers.

Bright Futures in Practice: Oral Health
This guide is designed to help health professionals implement specific oral health guidelines during infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence.

Bright Futures In Practice: Oral Health Pocket Guide
This guide provides an overview of the publication Bright Futures in Practice: Oral Health. Information included is specific to each developmental period and addresses risk assessment for dental caries, periodontal disease, malocclusion, and injury.

Dental Health Screening and Fluoride Varnish Application
This training is designed to provide the knowledge and tools needed to provide oral health prevention education and treatment to children at risk for tooth decay.

Early Childhood Caries: A Medical & Dental Perspective
This interactive program includes multiple-choice and true/false questions that provide immediate feedback to allow a person to assess his or her knowledge of the topics presented.

Medical Providers Oral Health Education Project: New Hampshire 2002-2005
This resource describes a project to educate physicians and dental hygienists about dental caries in infants and children ages 3 and younger. Materials include age-specific forms and handouts such as questionnaires, assessment and recommendation forms, and protocols.

A Health Professional’s Guide to Pediatric Oral Health Management
This program provides a series of 7 self-contained online modules designed to assist health professionals in managing the oral health of infants and young children.

Opening the Mouth
This Web-based training program provides non-oral-health professionals with an introduction to oral health and tooth decay in infants and toddlers. This program discusses the prevalence of tooth decay among children, tooth decay as a chronic disease, unmet oral health care needs among children, and the consequences of these unmet needs.

Open Wide: Oral Health Training for Health Professionals
A series of 4 self-contained online modules designed to help health and early childhood professionals working in community settings (eg, Head Start and WIC staff) promote oral health in the course of promoting general health for infants, children, and their families. This curriculum offers health and early childhood professionals information to help them prevent tooth decay, which still afflicts many U.S. children, especially children from families with low incomes, children in certain minority groups, and children with special health care needs.

Oral Health for Family Physicians
This curriculum resource developed by Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, provides goals and objectives for training primary care physicians in the area of oral health. The curriculum is organized by ACGME Competencies.

Oral Health Tutorial Providing a Brief Overview of Early Childhood Caries for Non-Dental Professionals
This tutorial is designed for non-oral health professionals who work with infants and young children and children with specail health care needs.

Planning Guide for Dental Professionals Serving Children with Special Health Care Needs
Developed by the University of Southern California University Affiliated Program, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, this manual promotes a framework within which oral health professionals can communicate and work with families to ensure that appropriate, quality oral health care is provided both at home and in the dental office.

Promoting Children's Oral Health
This curriculum is written for those working in the field of early care and education with an interest
in promoting oral health, including health and Early Care and Education (ECE) professionals,
such as Child Care Health Consultants (CCHCs), school nurses and Child Care Health Advocate
(CCHAs). This curriculum provides up-to-date information and strategies to promote oral
health that are specifi c to infants and young children. It also provides effective and practical
lesson plans for child care providers, parents and children.

Smiles for Life
Smiles for Life is a comprehensive oral health curriculum for physicians developed by the STFM Group on Oral Health. It is designed to be implemented in residencies or medical school pre-doctoral programs. The curriculum is based on four PowerPoint modules covering core areas on oral health; The relationship of oral and systemic health; Child oral health; Adult oral health; and Dental emergencies. Also included are a comprehensive set of educational objectives based on the ACGME competencies, test questions, resources for further learning, and an implementation guide which includes a detailed outline of the modules.

Smile Smarts: An Oral Health Curriculum for Preschool-Grade 8

This curriculum provides oral health instruction for students in preschool through eighth grade. Contents include modular lesson plans, support materials, hands on classroom demonstrations, student activity sheets, and suggestions for additional oral health activities.

Special Care: An Oral Health Professional's Guide to Serving Young Children with Speal Health Care Needs
This curriculum provides oral health professionals with information to ensure that young children with special health care needs have acess to health-promotion and disease-prevention services that address their unique oral health needs in a comprehensive, family-centered, and community-based manner.

University of Connecticut Oral Health Web-based Curriculum
The UConn Health Center's Oral Health Web site is designed to improve the oral health of infants and children through the improvement of effective oral health education of physicians, residents, and medical students.