The objective of this study was to investigate whether undergraduate dental education affects general dentists' practice characteristics, attitudes, and professional behavior concerning the treatment of pediatric patients. Data were collected with a self-administered mailed survey from 241 general dentists who were members of the Michigan Dental Association (response rate=48.2 percent). While 4...

Purpose The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) recognizes that pediatric dentists are uniquely qualified to manage the oral health care needs of children with heritable dental developmental anomalies. These children have multiple, complex problems as their dental conditions affect both form and function and can have significant psychological impact. These conditions may present earl...

Purpose The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) recognizes that pediatric dentists are uniquely qualified to manage the oral health care needs of children with heritable dental developmental anomalies. These children have multiple, complex problems as their dental conditions affect both form and function and can have significant psychological impact. These conditions may present earl...

OBJECTIVE This study compared types and costs of dental services rendered to children who had received care in a hospital operating room (H) with children who had not (NH). METHODS The study population consisted of all children aged 1-5 years who received a dental service reimbursed by the Louisiana Medicaid EPSDT program from October 1996 through September 1997. Claim files were provided by ...

PURPOSE This paper describes the Preventive Services Program (PSP), a community based oral health program model which engages volunteers to provide preventive services and education for underserved children in Missouri. In 2006, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services created a program for children designed to use a systems approach for population-based prevention of oral disease....

ISSUE BRIEF, July 2015 Even though Medicaid coverage includes dental benefits for enrolled children, ensuring that children use that benefit has proved to be a challenge for states. To reduce barriers to oral health care for low-income children and to increase utilization, CMS launched a national Oral Health Initiative (OHI) in 2010. Through the OHI, CMS has asked states to increase the proport...

Currently, the major determinants of children's exposure to pesticides are not fully understood, and approaches for measuring and assessing dermal exposure in a residential setting have not been sufficiently evaluated. In one approach, dermal exposure is estimated using empirically derived transfer coefficients. To assess the feasibility of using this approach for assessing children's exposure ...

The Florida Department of Health in Orange County (DOH-Orange) was notified by a child care facility on January 11, 2013, that a parent had reported that an attendee and three siblings were ill with measles. All four siblings were unvaccinated for measles and had no travel history outside of Orange County during the periods when they likely had been exposed. A fifth, possibly associated case wa...

Congenital cardiac disease (CCD) is one of the most common developmental anomalies in children. Affected children require special care in dentistry because of their susceptibility to infective endocarditis from oral infections, yet little information is available on the oral health of children with CCD. The present study, which investigated 39 children with CCD and 33 healthy control siblings, ...

epidermolysis bullosa (eb) is a group of rare inherited skin and mucous membrane disorders in which blister formation may arise spontaneously or following a minor friction. various patterns of inheritance are explicated for the disease. the disease has a profound effect on oral mucosa and may result in high prevalence of dental caries. general anesthesia is sometimes the only choice for dental ...