ReviewAnnual review of public health2020
Disparities in Access to Oral Health Care.
Review in Annual review of public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 281 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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281 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 486 citations in OpenAlex.
- Traditional Oral Hygiene Practices and Their Effectiveness: A Systematic Review of the Evidence.Oral health & preventive dentistry · 2026Pooled it
- Interprofessional oral health promotion in rural primary healthcare systems: a scoping review.Frontiers in oral health · 2026Pooled it
- Deep Learning for Detecting Dental Plaque and Gingivitis From Oral Photographs: A Systematic Review.Community dentistry and oral epidemiology · 2025Pooled it
- Patient preferences and willingness to pay for dental services: a systematic review.BMC oral health · 2025Pooled it
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of the association between sugar intake and dental caries in Nigeria.BMC oral health · 2024Pooled it
- Transition probabilities for caries in children receiving silver diamine fluoride: a community-based randomized clinical trial.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Silver Diamine Fluoride vs Atraumatic Restoration for Managing Dental Caries in Schools: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2025Trial
- School-Based Access to and Delivery of Oral Health Care.The Journal of school health · 2026Review
- Impact of a Community-Based Preventive Oral Health Program on Oral Health-Related Quality of Life in School-Aged Children.International journal of paediatric dentistry · 2026Observational
- Dental Care Access for Young Children With Medicaid: Groundtruthing Online Data and Actual Access in the Chicago Metro Area.Journal of public health dentistry · 2026Article
- Patient Comfort With Smartphone-Based and Intraoral Camera Imaging in Teledentistry: Observational Cross-Sectional Study.Online journal of public health informatics · 2026Article
- The Distribution, Accessibility, and Equity of Primary Care Facilities in China-A Nationwide Analysis Based on POI and High-Resolution Population Data.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Beyond Universal Coverage: The Magnitude of the Oral Health Equity Gap Between Socially Excluded Children and a Reference Paediatric Population Within a Single Spanish Setting.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The Impact of Limited Access to Dental Care on Emergency Room Service Utilization: A Study of Primary Healthcare in a Rural Inland Region of Portugal.Dentistry journal · 2026Article
- Poverty Simulations: Are the Learning Outcomes Consistently and Uniformly Positive?Journal of dental education · 2026Article
- Associations Between Oral Health Related Outcomes and Electronic Cigarette Use in Young People: A Scoping Review.International journal of paediatric dentistry · 2026Article
- Dental disease among adults with and without HIV in the MACS/WIHS Combined Cohort Study (MWCCS).BMC oral health · 2026Article
- Trends in dental care utilization and tooth loss among vulnerable adults in Nevada (2018-2024): a repeated cross-sectional analysis in the context of COVID-19 and medicaid coverage expansions.BMC oral health · 2026Article
- Oral Health in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Feasibility of Oral Screening and Determinants of Poor Outcomes.Muscle & nerve · 2026Article
- Interrelationships between Refined Carbohydrates, Periodontal Diseases, and Cognitive Decline: A Narrative Review.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Review
221 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
In the United States, people are more likely to have poor oral health if they are low-income, uninsured, and/or members of racial/ethnic minority, immigrant, or rural populations who have suboptimal access to quality oral health care. As a result, poor oral health serves as the national symbol of social inequality. There is increasing recognition among those in public health that oral diseases such as dental caries and periodontal disease and general health conditions such as obesity and diabetes are closely linked by sharing common risk factors, including excess sugar consumption and tobacco use, as well as underlying infection and inflammatory pathways. Hence, efforts to integrate oral health and primary health care, incorporate interventions at multiple levels to improve access to and quality of services, and create health care teams that provide patient-centered care in both safety net clinics and community settings may narrow the gaps in access to oral health care across the life course.
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