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Table 1 Stages of life and themes raised during yarning

From: Yarning about oral health: perceptions of urban Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women

Growing up

As an adult

As a mother

• Teenage perceptions

• Fluoride

• Traditional approaches

• Diet

• Negative impacts

• Disease

• Traumatic past experience

• Cost

• Tooth loss and wellbeing

• Pregnancy

• Diet

• Lack of information

• Recommendations for health promotion