ArticlePediatrics2014
Office-based preventive dental program and statewide trends in dental caries.
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- Integrating Maternal and Children's Oral Health Promotion into Nursing and Midwifery Practice- A Systematic Review.PloS one · 2016Pooled it
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- A Scoping Review to Identify Community- and Societal-Level Strategies Evaluated from 2013 to 2023 for Their Potential Impact on Child Well-Being in the United States.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The Impact of Preventive Dental Services on Subsequent Dental Treatment for Children in Medicaid.JDR clinical and translational research · 2023Article
- The Impact of Dental Care Programs on Individuals and Their Families: A Scoping Review.Dentistry journal · 2023Article
- Recruitment strategies for a pragmatic cluster randomized oral health trial in pediatric primary care settings.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2021Article
- Visualizing Potential Effects of Dentist Retirements on Accessibility to Dental Care Among Children in Alabama, 2019.Preventing chronic disease · 2021Article
- Disparities in Access to Oral Health Care.Annual review of public health · 2020Review
- The Effect of Physician Oral Health Services on Dental Use and Expenditures under General Anesthesia.JDR clinical and translational research · 2020Article
- A dental workforce strategy to make Australian public dental services more efficient.Human resources for health · 2019Article
- Impact of Medicaid Policy on the Oral Health of Publicly Insured Children.Maternal and child health journal · 2019Article
- Access to preventive services after the integration of oral health care into early childhood education and medical care.Journal of the American Dental Association (1939) · 2018Article
- Pattern of management of oro-facial infection in children: A retrospective.Saudi journal of biological sciences · 2017Article
- Global Search Trends of Oral Problems using Google Trends from 2004 to 2016: An Exploratory Analysis.Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR · 2017Article
- Community-based population-level interventions for promoting child oral health.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Review
- Dental Caries: Racial and Ethnic Disparities Among North Carolina Kindergarten Students.American journal of public health · 2015Article
- Oral Hygiene Study in Late Adolescence.Current health sciences journalArticle
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Abstract
objectivesTo evaluate the impact of a North Carolina Medicaid preventive dentistry program in primary care medical offices (Into the Mouths of Babes Program [IMBP]) on decayed, missing, and filled teeth (dmft) of kindergarten students statewide and in schools with a large proportion of students from low-income families.
methodsAn ecologic study using panel data of 920,505 kindergarten students with 11,694 school-year observations examined the effect of the IMBP on dmft scores from 1998 to 2009. Ordinary least squares regression with fixed effects determined the association between IMBP visits per child 0 to 4 years of age per county and mean dmft scores per kindergarten student per school, controlling for school-level poverty and ethnicity, county-level Medicaid enrollment, and supply of dentists and physicians.
resultsMean dmft per kindergarten student per school increased from 1.53 in 1998 to 1.84 in 2004, then decreased to 1.59 in 2009. The mean number of IMBP visits per child 0 to 4 years of age per county increased from 0.01 in 2000 to 0.22 in 2009. A 1-unit increase in IMBP visits per county was associated with a 0.248 (95% confidence interval, -0.40 to -0.10) decrease in dmft per kindergarten student per school. For schools with more students at high risk for dental disease, a 1-unit increase in IMBP visits was associated with a 0.320 (95% confidence interval, -0.55 to -0.09) decrease in dmft.
conclusionsIMBP reduced dental caries among targeted vulnerable children, which helped reduce oral health disparities among preschool-aged children in North Carolina.
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