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Interview questions to ask parents of
infants:
- How is feeding going?
- How well does your infant sleep? Do you give
her a bottle in bed? What is in the bottle?
- Is your infant easy or difficult to console?
- Does your infant’s drinking water contain
fluoride?
- Does your infant use a pacifier? Does she suck
her thumb or finger?
- Do you put your infant in a safety seat when
she rides in a car?
- Are you brushing your infant’s teeth? How
has this been going?
- Do you have a family dentist? Does your dentist
provide care for young children?
- Have you made an appointment for your infant’s
first dental visit?
Table 1. Risk
and Protective Factors for Oral Health Conditions
During Infancy
(.pdf), pages 23-25 of Bright Futures
in Practice: Oral Health. Full text of this
document is available at www.brightfutures.org/oralhealth/pdf/index.html.
  
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