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This article is intended to stimulate dialogue within the intertwined dental practice and dental education communities about our evolving health care system and dentistry's role within this system as it reconfigures in response to a complex interplay of influences. The changing dental disease burden in the United States is analyzed with consideration of how evolution in disease prevalence influ...

medicaid programs are particularly interested in dental care because oral health problems, such as dental caries, are more prevalent and severe among children from low-income families. RIte Smiles, Rhode Island’s managed oral health program, was designed to increase access to dental services, promote the development of good oral health behaviors, decrease the need for restorative and emergency ...

In 2009, the National Health and Hospital Reform Commission recommended the establishment of a universal dental program for Australia. This recommendation was not implemented and the Australian Government’s 2012/13 budget allocated $515.3million to improve dental services, with something of a shorter term focus on the needs of low income earners. After 16 difficult years for states’ and territo...

Background: According to the World Health Organization, one in every 10 people has a disability, and more than two-thirds of them do not receive any type of oral dental care. The Brazilian Constitution of 1988 guarantees all civilians including disabled people the right to healthcare, shaping the guidelines of the Brazilian National Health Care System (Sistema Único de Saúde – SUS). However, th...

This study aimed at identifying the prevalence of the negative evaluation of dental services among elderly Brazilians and at investigating whether the prevalence was higher among those using public or philanthropic provider services than among those paying privately or using private health plans. Additionally, factors associated with this negative assessment were identified. Interview and surve...

Three papers published in the Journal of the American Dental Association, “The Public Looks at Dental Care,”’ “Dentists and the Practice of Dentistry as Viewed by the Public,”’ and “What the Public Thinks of the Dentist and Dental Health,”3 indicate that public reaction to the practice of dental care is important to dental practitioners as well 1s dental researchers. An increasing amount of res...

Considerable social and economic changes have occurred since New Zealand's last national oral health survey over 13 years ago. The effects of those changes on adult oral health and the use of dental services remain largely unknown. The aims of this study were to examine self-reported oral health and the use of dental services in an adult Dunedin population sample, and to examine their associati...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences of dental hygiene students providing services to unserved and underserved children in a school-based collaboration between a dental school, school district and Extended Care Permit I (ECP-I) dental hygienist in Kansas. METHODS Following comprehensive preventive oral health care services to children in 4 schools supervised by an ...

BACKGROUND Health utilization inequality is a major concern for health policymakers. Equality in utilization of services is very important for having a healthy society. The aim of this study was to describe inequality in dental care utilization in Iran, Therefore, concentration index, its curve, and the predictors of inequality in utilization of dental services and their spending were calculate...