The contributions of dental hygiene as a discipline of prevention, the inception of systemic fluoride in community water systems, the continual research conducted by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), and the success of dental sealants have all contributed to the decrease in incidences of dental diseases. The prevalence of employer-based dental insurance must al...

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...

statement of the problem: no published literature was found studying the people's reasons on why to choose or not to choose a dental care setting in south iran, while understanding their attitude towards choosing their dental care center is consequential for planning a successful oral health care service system.    purpose: to determine the factors affecting how people of the city of shiraz cho...

Poor oral health among low-income people is gaining attention as a significant health care problem. Key barriers to dental services include low rates of dental insurance coverage, limited dental benefits available through public insurance programs, and a lack of dentists willing to serve low-income patients, according to findings from the Center for Studying Health System Change's (HSC) 2007 si...

A national oral health pathfinder survey has been conducted by our research team in Turkey, in collaboration with the WHO European Region. Some of the data obtained by this survey were for CPITN values for age groups above 10 years, and can be summarized as follows: formula: (see text) These findings demonstrate that preventive periodontal therapy and community-based prophylaxis methods, will u...

This chapter will describe the role and evolution of the scope of clinical practice of dental hygienists, dental therapists and oral health therapists. These three groups of allied oral health professionals are playing an increasingly important role in the provision of oral health services and it is therefore important to understand how they are utilised as part of the dental team. Historically...

OBJECTIVE To determine why patients attend dental-care facilities in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and to improve understanding of the capacity of oral health-care services in urban west Africa. METHODS We studied a randomly selected sample of patients attending 15 dental-care facilities in Ouagadougou over a 1-year period in 2004. Data were collected using a simple daily record form. FINDINGS ...

Community Health Centers (CHCs) are one of the principal safety-net providers of health care for low-income and uninsured populations. Co-locating dental services in primary care settings provides an opportunity to improve access to dental care. Yet this study of California CHCs that provide primary care services shows that only about one-third of them co-located primary and dental care service...

Despite efforts that increased dental visits at federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) by 65 percent between 2007 and 2014, only 21 percent of FQHC patients received dental services in 2015-not altogether surprising, given that most such facilities do not offer dental services on site. Many of these facilities are part of multisite organizations that offer dental services at other locations...

Aboriginal Australian children experience profound oral health disparities relative to their non-Aboriginal counterparts. In response to community concerns regarding Aboriginal child oral health in the regional town of Port Augusta, South Australia, a child dental health service was established within a Community Controlled Aboriginal Health Service. A partnership approach was employed with the...