ArticleThe journal of primary prevention2013
Dentists as oral physicians: the overlooked primary health care resource.
Article in The journal of primary prevention, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Clinician and Patient Factors Influencing Treatment Decisions: Ethnographic Study of Antibiotic Prescribing and Operative Procedures in Out-of-Hours and General Dental Practices.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- HIV testing in the dental setting: perspectives and practices of experienced dental professionals.AIDS care · 2018Article
- Attitudes toward and beliefs about the use of a dental diagnostic terminology: A survey of dental care providers in a dental practice.Journal of the American Dental Association (1939) · 2015Article
- Clinical implication of blood glucose monitoring in general dental offices: the Ehime Dental Diabetes Study.BMJ open diabetes research & care · 2015Article
- A framework for physician-dentist collaboration in diabetes and periodontitis.Clinical diabetes : a publication of the American Diabetes Association · 2014Article
- Primary care in dentistry - an untapped potential.Journal of family medicine and primary careArticle
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Abstract
The United States is currently experiencing a primary care shortage. One solution to improving health care is to increase the utilization of existing health care providers, particularly dentists, an opportunity that has been largely ignored. By employing mid-level providers for less complex procedures to deliver more accessible dental care at lower cost, dentists can redistribute tasks to their office workforce. They can then serve as oral physicians who can provide limited preventive primary care, including screening for chronic diseases, while continuing to oversee all dental care, whether provided by dentists or non-dentists. Thus, they could improve the health of the US population as well as increase access to dental care at lower cost, while partially alleviating the primary care shortage by filling a need for the screening aspects of primary care.
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