The retention of mothers in the test group with lower education and lower income demonstrated that despite their social disadvantage they are willing to participate in activities that could improve the oral health of their children, if such
an opportunity arises. The success of long-term oral health promoting programmes thus depends on the ability to establish relationships with mothers and their engagement in a health promoting process. Mothers must be aware that they and
their children will benefit from participation in the programme. Ideally the programme should include other family members, especially grandmothers,who could offer valuable social support to a young family. Information regarding lifestyle related to caries prevention held by grandparents could often be outdated. Differences in opinions among family
members about what is good for a child may create tension among family members, which could be prevented by the inclusion of a wider set of family members. If this intervention is expanded, the main beneficiaries will be people from rural and remote areas, where not only geographical distances but especially shortage of health professionals limit their access to routine dental care, and especially preventive dental care.