Breastfeeding and the risk of dental caries: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

To synthesise the current evidence for the associations between breastfeeding and dental caries, with respect to specific windows of early childhood caries risk.Systematic review, meta-analyses and narrative synthesis following searches of PubMed, CINAHL and EMBASE databases.Sixty-three papers included. Children exposed to longer versus shorter duration of breastfeeding up to age 12 months (more versus less breastfeeding), had a reduced risk of...