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Establishing an Essential Basket of Services for a Federal Dental Program for Children: A Survey of Canadian Pediatric Dentists.

Journal of public health dentistry · Cale K, Oxner J, Azarpazhooh A, Singhal S · 2026-08-12

Canadian pediatric dentists surveyed identified preventive services—including oral hygiene instruction, nutritional counseling, mouth guards, and space maintainers—as essential for children but found these largely absent from the Canadian Dental Care Plan's covered services.

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