OBJECTIVE The unmet need for dental care is one of the greatest public health problems facing U.S. children. This issue is particularly concerning for children with special health care needs (CSHCN), who experience higher prevalence of unmet dental care needs. The primary purpose of this study was to investigate regional differences in unmet dental care needs for CSHCN. Using the Social Ecologi...

A modelling exercise was carried out to examine the potential expenditure in a national incremental dental program for children aged six to 13. Using Relative Value Units (RVUs) as a proxy for dollars, the relative expenditures for care per child in fluoridated and fluoride-deficient areas were assessed. Dental treatment requirements were taken from existing data as far as possible. Arrangement...

Evidence indicates that immigrant youth are at greater risk of having dental disease – in fact they were five times more likely to have dental caries than were Canadian born youth. One in five immigrant youth required restorative dental care for these caries – compared to less than 4% of Canadian born youth. While the longer immigrant children and youth live in Canada, the less likely they are ...

BACKGROUND In response to concern that inadequate dental school training may create a barrier to access to care for children, the authors conducted a survey concerning general practitioners' practice patterns involving child patients. METHODS The authors requested a list of 4,970 randomly chosen general practitioners from the American Dental Association Survey Center. They then sent those den...

1. Low-income children experience more dental caries and more complications of caries, such as dental abscesses. Beginning fluoride toothpaste and fluoride varnish during the first year of life can reduce low-income children’s risk of getting dental caries. 2. Pediatricians and other primary care clinicians for children have an important role to play in implementing a dental caries primary prev...

Parents usually are the primary decision makers on matters affecting their children’s health and health care (Cafferata & Kasper, 1985; Hickson & Clayton, 2002). Moreover, in everyday life, parents function as role models for their children, and therefore, parents' own dental hygiene habits are very meaningful. Parental characteristics and beliefs may also be an important consideration in attem...