Nutritional status, dental caries and tooth eruption in children: a longitudinal study in Cambodia, Indonesia and Lao PDR.

Background: Untreated dental caries is reported to affect children's nutritional status and growth, yet evidence on this relationship is conflicting. The aim of this study was to assess the association between dental caries in both the primary and permanent dentition and nutritional status (including underweight, normal weight, overweight and stunting) in children from Cambodia, Indonesia and Lao PDR over a period of 2 years. A second objective was to assess whether nutritional status affects the eruption of permanent teeth.

Current Guidelines for Obesity Prevention in Childhood and Adolescence.

Objective: Current guidelines for prevention of obesity in childhood and adolescence are discussed.

Methods: A literature search was performed in Medline via PubMed, and appropriate studies were analyzed.

Results: Programs to prevent childhood obesity have so far remained mainly school-based and effects have been limited.

'Fit for school' - a school-based water, sanitation and hygiene programme to improve child health: Results from a longitudinal study in Cambodia, Indonesia and Lao PDR.

Background: The Fit for School (FIT) programme integrates school health and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene interventions, which are implemented by the Ministries of Education in four Southeast Asian countries. This paper describes the findings of a Health Outcome Study, which aimed to assess the two-year effect of the FIT programme on the parasitological, weight, and oral health status of children attending schools implementing the programme in Cambodia, Indonesia and Lao PDR.

Methods: The study was a non-randomized clustered controlled trial with a follow-up period of two years.

Dental enamel defects in German medieval and early-modern-age populations.

Aim of this study was to investigate the frequency and type of developmental defects of enamel (DDE) in a medieval and an early-modern-age population from Thuringia, Germany. Sixty-six skeletons subdivided into 31 single burials (12/13 c.) and 35 individuals buried in groups (15/16 c.

[Current Guidelines to Prevent Obesity in Childhood and Adolescence].

Background: Current guidelines for the prevention of obesity in childhood and adolescence are presented.

Methods: A literature search was performed in Medline via PubMed, and appropriate studies were analysed.

Results: Programs to prevent childhood obesity were to date mainly school-based.