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Repeated Use of Emergency Departments for Nontraumatic Dental Conditions: Factors Associated With Being a Superutilizer

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Due to inadequate access to regular, affordable dental care, many patients turn to emergency departments (EDs) for the treatment of nontraumatic dental conditions (NTDCs). NTDC ED visits are a large burden on the U.S. healthcare system, with over 1.3 million visits each year and over $1 billion in associated charges.
Morgan Santoro, Lisa J. Heaton, Adrianna C. Sonnek, Rebecca A. Preston, John J. O'Malley, Eric P. Tranby   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Medicare Advantage Supplemental Benefits for Dual-Eligible Benificiaries and Recommendations for Reform. [PDF]

JAMA Health Forum
Roberts ET, Macneal E, Lovelace J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Oral Health Care Services, Barriers and Enablers to Maintaining Good Oral Health in Motor Neurone Disease: A Scoping Review

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives The objective of this scoping review was to map existing literature on oral health and related care in individuals with Motor Neurone Disease (MND). Specifically, the review aimed to identify barriers and facilitators to maintaining oral hygiene, summarise available clinical guidelines and patient‐facing resources, and examine how ...
Mariam A. Khokhar, Lucy A. O'Malley, Anne‐Marie Glenny, Xiaohui Chen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating quality of life and well-being of university students, with the EQ5D-5L, the WHO-5 Well-Being Index, and the ICECAP-A questionnaires to gain baseline data. [PDF]

BMC Psychol
Meszaros A, Szepe O.
europepmc   +1 more source

Does Oral Health Status Predict Incident Frailty Over the 13‐Year Follow‐Up in Older Adults in England?

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives This study aimed to assess longitudinal associations between oral health and incident frailty, assessed by a multidimensional frailty index, in a national sample of older adults in England with participant mortality and drop out considered as competing risks.
Egle Petrauskiene, Paola Zaninotto, Anja Heilmann, Anne Peasey, Georgios Tsakos   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dental recommendation and prescribing patterns for systemic analgesics - a cross-sectional study. [PDF]

Clin Oral Investig
Heimes D, Holz NV, Pabst A, Becker P, Hollinderbäumer A, Kloss-Brandstätter A, Müller-Winter D, Stephan D, Kämmerer PW.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Oral Health Interventions for People Living With Diabetes From a Public Health Perspective: A Mapping Review

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives Despite growing concerns about the oral health‐diabetes link, there is a lack of dental health interventions focused on people with diabetes. This mapping review synthesised the current landscape of oral health interventions for people with diabetes and identified future opportunities.
Fernando Valentim Bitencourt, Benoit Varenne, Nicole Rendell, Sangeeta Singh, Yuriko Harada, Ole Secher Knudsen, Carolina Martins‐Pfeifer, Cristine Miron Stefani, João Botelho   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Healthcare Providers in Oral and Oropharyngeal Cancer Screening. [PDF]

Fortune J Health Sci
Ferguson A, Gray A, Alluri LSC, Patel K, Bean M, Kirt K, Eden D, Jordan L, Jackson A, Adunyah SE, Gangula P, Cade JE, Khoury ZH.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Access to health care in the community health unit of Petite Riviere, Verretes, la Chapelle, Haiti [PDF]

, 2005
Manzi, Marcel, MSF Haiti Team, Philips, Mit, Ponsar, Frederique, Van Herp, Michel   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Hypoxia Exacerbates Periapical Periodontitis‐Associated Pathological Bone Loss via the Hypoxia‐Inducible Factor‐2α‐Calmodulin‐Dependent Protein Kinase IV Axis

Cell Proliferation, EarlyView.
Hypoxia exposure activates HIF‐2α, which binds to the Camk4 promoter to enhance RANKL‐mediated osteoclast differentiation, leading to aggravated alveolar bone resorption in periapical periodontitis. ABSTRACT Periapical periodontitis is one of the most common inflammatory bone destructive diseases. Epidemiological evidence suggests that hypoxia exposure,
Kang Gao, Yifan Xu, Haoran Du, Zixiao Li, Xiaochen Fang, Minghui Wang, Jia Liu, Xu Zha, Xianglong Han, Weihua Guo, Xicheng Liu, Jian Zhou   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source