From the basic hospital expense benefit program that began in 1929 at Baylor University Hospital in Dallas, Texas, through the development of group insurance coverage for surgeon’s fees in 1938 and medical expense benefits in 1943, to the introduction of major medical expense benefits in 1949, the prevailing concept of group health insurance has been to spread individual economic risks of injur...

Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Manubhai Patel Dental College and Hospital, ORI, Vadodara, Gujarat, India Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, Manubhai Patel Dental College and Hospital, ORI, Vadodara, Gujarat, India Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, K M Shah Dental College and Hospital, Vadodara, Gujarat, India Department of Pedodontics and Preventive D...

Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, Manubhai Patel Dental College and Hospital, ORI, Vadodara, Gujarat, India Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, K.M.Shah Dental College and Hospital, Sumandeep Vidyapeeth, Vadodara, Gujarat, India Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, K.M. Shah Dental College and Hospital, Sumandeep Vidyapeeth, Vadodara, Gujarat, India Dep...

Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Sharavathi Dental College and Hospital, Shimoga, Karnataka, India Department of Periodontics, K.M. Shah Dental College and Hospital, Sumandeep Vidyapeeth, Vadodara, Gujarat, India Department of Oral Medicine & Radiology, Sharavathi Dental College and Hospital, Shimoga, Karnataka, India Department of Conservative and Endodontics, K.M Shah Dental Colleg...

1 Postgraduate Student, Rama Dental College, Hospital & Research Center, Lakhanpur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. 2 Reader, Rama Dental College, Hospital & Research Center, Lakhanpur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. 3 Reader, Rama Dental College, Hospital & Research Center, Lakhanpur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.. 4 HOD and professor, Rama Dental College, Hospital & Research Center, Lakhanpur, K...

a Department of Urology, Uonuma Institute of Community Medicine, Niigata University Medical and Dental Hospital, Japan b Department of Pathology, Uonuma Institute of Community Medicine, Niigata University Medical and Dental Hospital, Japan c Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Uonuma Institute of Community Medicine, Niigata University Medical and Dental Hospital, Japan d Department of Digestive...

PURPOSE This study compared the expenditure by the state Medicaid program for episodic, nondefinitive care provided through the emergency room (ER) of a children's hospital with the cost to Medicaid of covering that same child with the recommended preventive service calculated on the fee schedule of the state dental Medicaid program. METHODS Records of patients discharged from the ER during 1...

This report analyzes the use of dental services by children enrolled in Medicaid from federal fiscal years (FFY) 2000 to 2010. The number and percent of children receiving dental services under Medicaid climbed continuously over the decade. In FFY 2000, 6.3 million children ages 1 to 20 were reported to receive some form of dental care (either preventive or treatment); the number more than doub...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether and to what extent the state policy environment for the dental hygiene workforce affects the availability of dental services at Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs). METHODS We examined data drawn from the Uniform Data System on 1,135 unique FQHC grantees receiving community health center funding from the U.S. Health Center program between 2004 and 2012. ...

Oral health promotion to young children is delivered by primary care nurses as part of general health promotion given to all children in Norway. OBJECTIVE The objective was to evaluate established routines for referral of children by primary care nurses to the dental services and to study whether referred children younger than 3 years required contact with dental personnel. METHODS All chil...