Community Dental Health Coordinators

Community dental health.

Fluoride and Oral Health D.M. O’Mullane, R.J. Baez, S. Jones, M.A. Lennon, P.E. Petersen, A.J. RuggGunn, H. Whelton and G.M. Whitford The discovery during the first half of the 20th century of the link between natural fluoride, adjusted fluoride levels in drinking water and reduced dental caries prevalence proved to be a stimulus for worldwide on-going research into the role of fluoride in impr...

Dental health status of recipients of community dental health services.

A new information system was used routinely to monitor clinical dental services. Data on 20,729 courses of treatment support the validity and usefulness of continuously collected information about dental health status. Patients who had not attended a community clinic within the year before examination did not need courses of treatment that differed appreciably from those for patients who had at...

Community health workers as chronic care coordinators: evaluation of an Australian Indigenous primary health care program.

OBJECTIVES To explore how a client-centred Chronic Care model was implemented by Indigenous Health Workers (IHWs) at participating sites in a trial of IHW-led case management. To understand the experiences of engaging with the model from the perspective of the IHWs, health team members and clients. METHODS The review was conducted within a cluster randomised trial of the model in six remote I...

Dental Students' Competencies in Community Dentistry Course

Introduction: Graduated dentistry students ought to be competent in different fields of community dentistry such as health education, needs assessment, planning and policy making. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of community dentistry course on dental students' competencies in different fields of community dentistry through self-monitoring method in Isfahan School of dentistry. ...

The Neponset Valley Community Health Coalition: an elder dental program.