Giving clinicians an idea of these realities has the capacity to more effectively screen and risk stratify children on the basis of dental health in the hopes of ultimately increasing their overall health as well.
This information, as it is presented in the proposed conceptual model, reveals unique allostatic factors that work to increase risk at the level of the individual child, family, community, and society. The risk of developing ECC is especially pronounced in socially disadvantaged contexts. Results: In addition to biological realities, children experience profound impacts from their environments and family circumstances. Methods: The various social, behavioural, and biological risk factors that emerge from the cumulative effects of chronic stress, defined as allostatic load, are discussed separately before being incorporated into a single sociobiological model of ECC. The purpose of this paper is to review the scope and usefulness of the proposed conceptual model in guiding future research of ECC risk as it relates to allostatic load.
Visit for more related articles at Neonatal and Pediatric MedicineĪbstract Objective: Even though many factors have been linked to increased ECC risk, few studies have specifically presented this information as a single comprehensive model. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Received date: JAccepted date: JPublished date: June 20, 2017Ĭitation: FitzGerald LZ, Gulvartian N, Ramos-Gomez FJ, Prestwich B (2017) A Sociobiological Model of Early Childhood Caries: The Role of Allostatic Load. Ramos-Gomez 2 and Brian Prestwich 3ġ Nursing Department, Mount Saint Mary’s University, Los Angeles, California, USAĢ School of Dentistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USAģ Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA *Corresponding Author: Leah Fitzgerald
FitzGerald * 1, Nar Gulvartian 1, Francisco J. A Sociobiological Model of Early Childhood Caries: The Role of Allostatic
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