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Evaluation of a Caregiver-Completed Questionnaire for Assessing Early Childhood Caries Risk: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Cureus · Gunnam DS, Ravikumar A, Chokshi AA, Chauhan S, Sreedhar G, Kumar B P · 2026-07-14

Researchers validated a caregiver questionnaire covering feeding, diet, and oral hygiene practices to identify early childhood caries in preschool children, finding it demonstrated good diagnostic accuracy compared to clinical examination, with 82% sensitivity and 87% specificity at the optimal cutoff score.

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