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Volume 29 Number 4

November 2006

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1	The Role of Dietetics Professionals in Preventing Early Childhood Caries Mary P. Faine, MS, RD, CD Healthy primary teeth are critical to a child's total body health, to allow clear speech, permit chewing of food, enhance facial appearance and self-esteem, and to maintain space for permanent teeth. Dietetics professionals can play important roles in promoting oral health by educating parents about the functions and importance of maintaining healthy primary teeth.
8	Continuing Professional Education Study Questions This self-study program is available only to members of the Pediatric Nutrition Practice Group.
9	Oral Health: Collaboration for Children - Are All Health Care Professionals Playing The Same Tune? Penelope Leggott, DDS, Beth Ogata, MS, RD Dental caries is the most common chronic disease of childhood; it is five times more frequent than asthma (which is the second most common chronic disease).
16	Oral Health: My View As a School Nurse Susan Ramage, MS, RN Although our society has made great strides in the area of improving oral health care of children in the United States, there is still much work to be done.
17	Need Oral Health Information? Contact the National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center Katrina Holt, M.P.H., M.S., R.D. Although many of us take oral health for granted, a large number of people in this country suffer from oral diseases that negatively affect their ability to consume a wide variety of healthy foods, perform well at school or at work, concentrate, and perform complex tasks.

The BUILDING BLOCK FOR LIFE is published quarterly by the Pediatric Nutrition Practice Group (PNPG), a dietetic practice group of the American Dietetic Association (ADA), 120 South Riverside Plaza, Suite 2000, Chicago, IL 60606-6995.

News of members, book reviews, announcements of future meetings, requests for information or other items of interest to pediatric dietetics practitioners should be sent to the editor by the next published deadline date. The BUILDING BLOCK FOR LIFE publication features information on materials, positions and products for the use of its readers. These statements do not imply endorsements by the Pediatric Nutrition Practice Group or the American Dietetic Association.

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FOR THIS ISSUE:

EDITOR

Cristine M. Trahms , MS, RD, FADA

Center on Human Development and Disability
Box 357920,
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195

Co-EDITOR

Paula M. Charuhas, MS, RD, FADA, CNSD

3716 NE 75th #304C
Seattle, WA 98115

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