ArticleJournal of dental research2022
COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on US Childhood Caries and Potential Mitigation.
Article in Journal of dental research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Trends and prevalence of dental caries in children aged 3 to 5 years in Beijing, 2013 to 2023: a cross-sectional study.BMC oral health · 2026Article
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- The Disproportionate Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Preventive Dental Care and Treatment for Children Who Are American Indian: Public Health Surveillance Utilizing School-Based Sealant Program Data.Journal of public health dentistry · 2025Article
- Access to dental services for children: a scoping review on the impact of COVID-19 and implications for future models of care.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Impact of Interrupting Oral Prevention on Dental Health of 7- to 8-Year-Old Children Due to COVID-19.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Understanding the relationship between children's oral health utilization and parent's use of healthcare services.Frontiers in oral health · 2025Article
- Second molar sealants among US adolescents and their association with select sociodemographic factors and first molar sealants: A cross-sectional study using National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data.Journal of the American Dental Association (1939) · 2024Article
- Dental service utilization and the COVID-19 pandemic, a micro-data analysis.BMC oral health · 2024Article
- COVID-19 Related Information on Pediatric Dental Care including the Use of Teledentistry: A Narrative Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
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Abstract
Non-Hispanic Black (NHB) and Hispanic and low-income US children have a higher prevalence of untreated caries than their higher-income and non-Hispanic White (NHW) counterparts. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many dental offices and school sealant programs closed beginning March 2020. We examine the effect of reduced access to restorative care and sealants on the oral health of children from low-income households overall and by race/ethnicity and how increased sealant delivery in September 2022 could mitigate these effects. We used Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation to model COVID-19's impact on first permanent molar (1M) caries incidence and loss in quality of life (disability-adjusted life years [DALYs]) due to time lived with 1M untreated caries. Our model followed a cohort of children aged 7 y in March 2020 until February 2024. Model inputs were primarily obtained from published studies and nationally representative data. Excess DALYs per 1,000 children attributable to reduced access to care during the pandemic were 1.48 overall and greater for Hispanic (2.07) and NHB (1.75) children than for NHW children (0.94). Excess incidence of 1M caries over 4 y was 2.28 percentage points overall and greater for Hispanic (2.63) and NHB (2.40) children than for NHW (1.96) children. Delivering sealants to 50% of eligible 1Ms in September 2022 would not completely mitigate COVID-19's health access impact: overall excess DALYs would decrease to 1.05, and absolute disparities in excess DALYs between NHW children and Hispanic and NHB children would remain but decrease by 0.38 and 0.33, respectively. Sealing 40% of eligible 1Ms, however, would bring overall 4-y caries incidence down to pre-COVID-19 levels and eliminate the differential effect of the pandemic on children from minority groups. The pandemic's negative impact on the oral health of children from low-income households and increased disparities could be partially mitigated with increased sealant delivery.
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