Baby Smiles Project
Our Baby Smiles Project aims to provide better utilization of preventive dental care and improve the oral health of rural, low-income pregnant and postpartum women and their children and to increase the number of oral health practices taken by these women to prevent caries in their young children.
The primary outcome measures for the trial will be mother’s dental utilization during pregnancy and up to two months postpartum and children’s dental utilization before 18 months of age.
The goal of Baby Smiles is to conduct a randomized trial using a brief motivational intervention given during the prenatal and/or postnatal period(s) in rural, low income communities.