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Implementing Cavity Free at Three within your health clinic, dental clinic or public health program is simple! Adding simple steps to the care you provide pregnant women and young children can prevent a lifetime of poor oral health outcomes for generations of Colorado's children. The role of preventing oral disease in children lies with ALL health professionals - not just the dental community.

Included as free downloads on this website (look at the left hand side of your screen to find the information you need), you will find training and program materials to help you:

  • Assess pregnant women's and new mother's oral health.
  • Educate mothers on promoting their oral health and protecting the oral health of their children.
  • Conduct caries risk assessments on children.
  • Apply fluoride varnish.
  • Provide anticipatory guidance for tooth development and oral disease prevention.
  • Work with the family in establishing a dental home for the entire family.
  • Help families set behavioral goals for improving the family's oral health.

Dental Caries is 100% Preventable. As a health professional, you can play an important role in reducing dental disease in our children! Oral health is integral to overall health for all ages, but especially for our children oral health needs to start early. 

Remember: Prevention begins before birth. Critical prevention strategies include:

  • Caries risk assessment
  • Self management goal setting
  • Fluoride varnish
  • The combined approach has shown to be effective in preventing disease. Taken separately, none of the interventions will result in decreased dental disease
  • It is important for everyone to have a dental home as well as a medical home.
  • Children need their first dental visit by age one.
  • Physicians and dentists, working together, are critical in preventing the most common disease of childhood.

Special thanks to: Smiles for Life for making its materials available through Cavity Free at Three. Smiles for Life is a comprehensive oral health curriculum for primary care clinicians initially developed in 2005 by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Group on Oral Health.