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Letter to Editor: The influence of parental oral health literacy on children's oral health: a scoping review

  • Satish Chandrasekhar Nair1,2,*,

1College of Medicine UAE University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

2Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

DOI: 10.22514/jocpd.2025.043 Vol.49,Issue 2,March 2025 pp.224-225

Submitted: 03 August 2024 Accepted: 07 August 2024

Published: 03 March 2025

*Corresponding Author(s): Satish Chandrasekhar Nair E-mail: schandra@seha.ae

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Keywords

Gulf Cooperation Countries; Middle East; United Arab Emirates; Health-policy


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Satish Chandrasekhar Nair. Letter to Editor: The influence of parental oral health literacy on children's oral health: a scoping review. Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry. 2025. 49(2);224-225.

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[4] Benjamin RM. Oral health: the silent epidemic. Public Health Reports. 2010; 125: 158–159.

[5] Nair SC, Sreedharan J, Vijayan K, Ibrahim H. Estimation of health literacy levels in patients with cardiovascular diseases in a Gulf country. BMC Health Services Research. 2023; 23: 518.

[6] Nair SC, Al Saraj Y, Sreedharan J, Vijayan K, Ibrahim H. Health literacy levels in patients with type 2 diabetes in an affluent Gulf country: a cross-sectional study. BMJ Open. 2023; 13: e069489.


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