Conscious sedation is an integral part of modern day dental care and should be delivered through a high quality, effective and evidence-based approach. Commissioning of NHS dental services in England is currently under review by NHS England and the National Dental Commissioning Group. This group has identified the management of vulnerable people including anxious patients, as one of its priorit...

Contributors: 1Reader, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Vyas Dental College & Hospital, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India; 2Post-graduate Student, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Vyas Dental College & Hospital, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. Correspondence: Dr. Rushabh J. Dagli, Reader, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Vyas Dental College & Hospital, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. Email: r.j...

BACKGROUND HIV infected patients should be expected in the Sudanese dental health care services with an increasing frequency. Dental care utilization in the context of the HIV epidemic is generally poorly understood. Focusing on Sudanese dental patients with reported unknown HIV status, this study assessed the extent to which Andersen's model in terms of predisposing (socio-demographics), enabl...

Poor oral health among low-income people is gaining attention as a significant health care problem. Key barriers to dental services include low rates of dental insurance coverage, limited dental benefits available through public insurance programs, and a lack of dentists willing to serve low-income patients, according to findings from the Center for Studying Health System Change's (HSC) 2007 si...

Individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) are at risk for dental disease and face substantial challenges in accessing both routine and preventive dental services. In terms of unmet needs it ranks third, following residential services and employment opportunities for this particular group of people. Poorer oral health status negatively impacts overall health and one's q...

Individuals' utilization of dental services depends upon an array of factors, including access to care, financial restrictions, attitudes toward dental care, and dental fear. These factors, in turn, may vary across geographic locations and demographic groups. The goals of this study were to assess the use of dental services in both rural and urban areas of Kentucky and to examine challenges fac...

The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of regular use of dental services by adults and identify groups where this behavior is more frequent. A cross-sectional population-based study was carried out in Pelotas, southern Brazil, including 2,961 individuals who answered a standardized questionnaire. Overall prevalence of regular use of dental services was 32.8%. The following variabl...

1Sapna Prasanna, 2Anjan Giriraju, 3Nagesh Lakshmi Narayan 1Assistant Professor, Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry, Bapuji Dental College and Hospital, Davangere, Karnataka, India 2Postgraduate Student, Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry, Bapuji Dental College and Hospital, Davangere, Karnataka, India 3Professor and Head, Department of Preventive and Community Dentis...

health clinic services and other ambulatory services on the basis of the cost reimbursement principles in part 413 of this chapter. For purposes of this section, a provider clinic is an integral part of a hospital, skilled nursing facility, or home health agency that is participating in Medicare and is licensed, governed, and supervised with other departments of the facility. (b) For clinics ot...

Problem statement : The online tiered referral system is a digitalized which has been implemented since October 1, 2018. objective of this research to find general overview the dental and oral health services in era national insurance, before after by looking at diagnoses Social Security Administrator for Health patients Raden Mattaher Regional Hospital Jambi Province. Method Descriptive analyt...