BACKGROUND Despite recommendations for children to have a dental visit by the age of 1 year, access to dental care for young children, including children enrolled in Medicaid, remains limited. The authors conducted a survey to assess the availability of dentists to see young children enrolled in Medicaid managed care (MMC) in New York City (NYC), to determine barriers to the provision of dental...

OBJECTIVE Low dental care service utilization among Medicaid-enrolled children has often been attributed to low Medicaid reimbursement levels. The purpose of this study was to provide estimates of preventive dental care utilization by Medicaid-enrolled children with special health care needs (CSHCN) and investigate the association of Medicaid preventive dental care reimbursement levels with the...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES In Vermont in 2001, less than half of school-age children on Medicaid received dental services. Vermont is a designated resettlement area for refugees, many of whom have never had dental care. A school-based oral health program was designed to meet the needs of this high-risk pediatric population. PROGRAM A plan was developed to offer dental services to this group of childr...

OBJECTIVE Several parental factors influence children's use of oral health services. Some localized studies have shown that children's dental use patterns correlate positively with those of their parents. The objective of this study was to investigate associations between parents' and children's oral health-seeking behaviors among a representative sample of US children. METHODS We used the 20...

The prevalence of dental disease, the types and quality of dental care, and the provision of services were assessed for 150 cerebral palsied children (mean age 10.25 years) attending special schools in Leeds and compared with a matched control group of 191 children (mean age 10.39 years). Similar dental caries experience existed in the two groups, but study children had more extracted and unres...

Children from families who qualify for Medicaid, although more likely to receive dental care than uninsured children (1), are less likely to receive dental care than children from middle-income and upper-income families (2). School-based or school-linked oral health programs can play a key role in facilitating regular access to preventive oral health services for children participating in the M...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to describe and substantiate the experience of children, their families, and their caregivers with children's dental pain and to explore implications of these experiences for public policy. METHODS Data for 301 children presenting to 35 pediatric dentistry training programs during a 1-week period in 2000 for pain relief were collected with a questionnaire...

Access to oral health care for children is an important concern that has received considerable attention since publication of the US Surgeon General’s report, Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General, in 2000. The Surgeon General’s report concluded that for certain large groups of disadvantaged children there is a “silent epidemic” of dental disease, and that the US public health...

This research examines the relationship between legal status and oral health care among Mexican-origin children. Using the 2001-2014 California Health Interview Surveys, the objectives are: (1) to demonstrate population-level changes in the legal statuses of parents, the legal statuses of children, and the likelihood of receiving dental care; (2) to reveal how the roles of legal status boundari...

BACKGROUND Collaboration between primary care personnel and dental personnel to prevent early childhood caries has been established in several countries. The purpose of this study was, firstly, to describe health nurses' experiences and attitudes regarding collaboration with dental personnel, and secondly, to identify characteristic of health nurses and health centres associated with the collab...