The Professional Standards Review Organization is a Federal quality assurance program for Medicaid, Medicare, and Crippled Children’s Programs health services which was legislated in the early 1970s in response to administrative, economic, social, and professional concerns. The program is now fully implemented and provides local review of hospital admissions, including pedodontic admissions, th...

The aim of this study is to investigate the association between State funding towards dental services and the frequency of dental visits among concession card holders. Based on nationally representative data collected from the Australian National Health Survey, probit regression showed that individuals residing in the State of Tasmania were less likely to visit the dentist relative to residents...

PURPOSE Advanced dental hygiene practitioners (ADHPs), members of the oral health care team, bring care to persons disenfranchised from adequate dental services. ADHPs are licensed and provide the traditional educational, preventive and therapeutic dental hygiene services, plus diagnostic, prescriptive and minimally invasive restorative services. ADHPs work in collaboration with all members of ...

Vishal Mehrotra1*, Sumit Agarwal2, Asheesh Sawhny3, Manish Gupta4 and Kriti Garg5 1Reader, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Rama Dental College Hospital & Research Center, India 2Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Rama Dental College Hospital & Research Center, India 3Reader, Department of Conservative Dentistry, Rama Dental College Hospital & Research Center...

Community Health Centers (CHCs) are one of the principal safety-net providers of health care for low-income and uninsured populations. Co-locating dental services in primary care settings provides an opportunity to improve access to dental care. Yet this study of California CHCs that provide primary care services shows that only about one-third of them co-located primary and dental care service...

there is an escalating demand for geriatric oral healthcare in all developed and developing countries including india. two-thirds of the world’s elderly live in developing countries. this is a huge population that must receive attention from policy-makers who will be challenged by the changing demands for social and health services including oral health services. resources are limited thus rath...