Pediatric oral health-related quality of life improvement after treatment of early childhood caries: a prospective multisite study.

Abstract

Compared with caries-free children, early childhood caries children were more likely to have worse questionnaire response scores and to experience greater negative impacts on physical, mental, and social functioning. Dental interventions in ECC children had a significant positive impact on parental ratings of their overall oral health and physical, mental, and social functioning.