1. Low-income children experience more dental caries and more complications of caries, such as dental abscesses. Beginning fluoride toothpaste and fluoride varnish during the first year of life can reduce low-income children’s risk of getting dental caries. 2. Pediatricians and other primary care clinicians for children have an important role to play in implementing a dental caries primary prev...

42 CLINICAL CONTACT DERMATITIS Case An 81-year-old man presented with a recalcitrant case of cheilitis that had been ongoing for seven months (Figure 1). His dermatitis was extremely itchy and painful. It was predominantly right sided, but extended around his mouth and even on to his lip mucosa. The lower vermillion border was obscured by the eruption. His lips were fissured, intensely dry, and...