Strategies

Promote child bicycle helmet use via bicycle safety education, media campaigns, or provision of free or subsidized helmets

Adjust and monitor fluoride levels in public water supplies to reach and retain optimal fluoride concentrations

Provide sealants, fluoride treatment, screening, and other preventive dental care on school grounds via partnerships with dental professionals

Educate youth and college athletes, coaches, and parents about the severity of concussions in sports, proper prevention, detection, reporting, and treatment

Restrict full contact between youth football players via limits to the number of contact practices, head hits per player, delay tackling until a certain age, etc.