This document is not intended to provide “the right answers” to questions you might be asked, but rather to offer illustrations of how to more effectively communicate about children’s oral health. In the following questions and answers, we demonstrate how an advocate might think about turning unproductive frames embedded in questions into opportunities to advance a more effective message.
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