Background: Oral health is an important aspect of health for all children and is all the more important for differently abled who face unique challenges during routine dental care.
Sreekanth Bose +2 more
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Oral Health Care Access in New Hampshire [PDF]
In this brief, authors Eleanor M. Jaffee, Joan Widmer, and Lisa I. Speropolous provide an overview of the current state of oral health care in New Hampshire.
Jaffee, Eleanor M. +2 more
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Family dental health care service
The Family Dental Health Care Service is a new approach that includes efforts to serve oral and dental patients that focuses on maintenance, improvement and protection. This oral and dental health approach uses basic dentistry science and technology. The vision of the Family Dental Health Care Service is the family independences in the effort of dental
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Access to oral health services in children under twelve years of age in Peru, 2014
The aim of the study was to explore the patterns of dental health services access in children under twelve years of age in Peru. Data from 25,285 children under 12 years who participated in the Demographic and Family Health Survey of 2014 were reviewed ...
Akram Hernández-Vásquez +6 more
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'Toothless’—the absence of political priority for oral health: a case study of Ireland 1994–2021
Background Calls are emerging for oral health system reform under the Universal Healthcare (UHC) domain, while internationally there is an absence of political priority for oral health.
Úna McAuliffe +3 more
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The Impact of the Los Angeles Healthy Kids Program on Access to Care, Use of Services, and Health Status [PDF]
Presents survey results on the impact of the Healthy Kids program, which provides uninsured children with comprehensive coverage, on access to care, unmet needs, use of specialty and dental services, health status, and parental ...
Embry Howell, Lisa Dubay, Louise Palmer
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Oral Health Disparities and Unmet Dental Needs among Preschool Children in Chelsea, MA: Exploring Mechanisms, Defining Solutions [PDF]
Background: Significant disparities exist in children’s receipt of preventive dental care (PDC) in the United States. Many of the children at greatest risk of dental disease do not receive timely PDC; when they do receive dental care, it is often more ...
Dantas, Laila +3 more
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Exploring the oral health experiences of homeless people:a deconstruction-reconstruction formulation [PDF]
Objective: To explore qualitatively, using a grounded theory approach, homeless people's awareness of their oral health needs and how they access dental services using a deconstruction-reconstruction formulation, and provide recommendations for service ...
Anderson +34 more
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Influence of self-perceived oral health and socioeconomic predictors on the utilization of dental care services by schoolchildren [PDF]
The influence of socioeconomic factors and self-rated oral health on children's dental health assistance was assessed. This study followed a cross-sectional design, with a multistage random sample of 792 12-year-old schoolchildren from Santa Maria, a ...
ANTUNES, José Leopoldo Ferreira +3 more
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Background Oral health needs assessment is important for oral health care planning. This study compared dental treatment needs between normative and sociodental needs.
Andressa Coelho Gomes +4 more
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