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From Association to Arrest: Re-Centering Causal Logic, Guardrails, and Primary Prevention in Early Childhood Caries Research

2026-06-03

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Early childhood caries (ECC) remains a common, preventable, and socially patterned disease of childhood. Although the contemporary ECC literature has expanded across nutrition, microbiology, health services, dental rehabilitation, and non-restorative disease management, the field continues to face an important evidentiary challenge: studies that identify associations, describe disease burden, or test caries-arrest...

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Literature Corpus work: 5fa26926-b8cd-5959-a10f-0795f2774a41
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202606.0277.v1

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