Children’s right to oral health: other strategies needed for less democratic countries

Abstract

Mollet and colleagues call for a rights based approach to children’s oral health.1 There is an established link between poor oral health and lower socioeconomic status. Poor paediatric oral health is associated with education delay and increased morbidity in adulthood.2 Unfortunately, these associations are not new and have been known for at least 150 years. In 1905, James Kerr, a medical doctor, and Charles …