OBJECTIVE To describe primary care referral networks relating to children's dental care and the main influences on referral decisions taken by dentists working in a primary care setting. DESIGN A postal questionnaire to all 130 general dental practitioners (GDPs) in contract with Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), and 24 Community Dental Service (CDS) dentists in Liverpool. OUTCOME MEASURES Charac...

OBJECTIVE To determine the correlation of oral health home-care practices, snacking habits and dental caries experience among 3-15 year-old-HIV-positive children attending out-patient clinic at the Kenyatta National Hospital, Kenya. DESIGN Cross-sectional descriptive study. SETTING Kenyatta National Hospital comprehensive care centre out-patient clinic. SUBJECTS Two hundred and twenty par...

introduction dental trauma is one of the most serious oral conditions especially among children. it frequently occurs in children from 6 to 13 years old, often involving teeth with incomplete root formation. the most common dental injury at this age is crown fracture. arguments to provide this clinical guide, pubmed and scopus were searched using the following keywords: immature, incisor and pu...

PURPOSE This study evaluated factors associated with age-appropriate dental care utilization and preventive behaviors among preschool-aged children in Delaware. METHODS In June 1994, child health questionnaires were mailed to a simple random sample of 1,005 Delaware caregivers whose children were ages 6 to 36 months. RESULTS Only 12% of children > or = 12 months old had been to the dentist....

AIMS To assess the actual oral health status of Portuguese schoolchildren aged 6 and 12 years according to gender and urbanisation, to highlight the trend over time in dental caries prevalence of children, to assess the dental care habits and the provision of preventive services to children, and to analyse the effect of dental care habits on caries experience. BASIC RESEARCH DESIGN Clinical e...

OBJECTIVE Several health care organizations recommend that physicians provide preventive dentistry services, including dental screening and referral. This study is the first to investigate characteristics of medical providers that influence their referral to a dentist of children who are at risk for dental disease. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was undertaken of primary care clinicians in ...

PURPOSE To describe and analyse oral health of children and adolescents under two types of dental health care schemes under the Public Dental Health Service in Denmark, and to analyse possible influence of socio-economic and socio-cultural factors. METHODS Data on children's oral health status was obtained from public oral health registers and were pooled with data from questionnaires sent to...

D entistry is in the midst of a major transition. One key driver of change is the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which has many provisions relevant to the dental care sector. A key provision of the ACA is Medicaid expansion, which has the potential to reshape the dental benefits landscape considerably. Let’s first look at trends in Medicaid before ACA. For more than a decade, public health insuranc...

dental surgeons working in public sector have an important role to play in school dental health pro-gram to reinstitute the oral and dental health of growing population of india. even though the oral health policy was drafted in india in 1995, it was not implemented till this date (1). it is im-portant to enhance the knowledge about good oral health in teachers and parents by caring out worksho...

Physicians who provide primary care for children have a unique position to provide diagnostic, triage, educational, and preventive dental care for patients. Several papers have been published regarding primary pediatricians' participation in the preventive dental health care of their patients. One publication, a survey of physicians in Alabama focusing on physicians' overall awareness of dental...