The epidemic of children's dental diseases: putting teeth into the law (original) (raw)

The Child Dental Health Survey, Australia 1998

2000

The Child Dental Health Survey, Australia 1998 reports on the state of oral health in Australia’s school-age children, including age-specific and age-standardised measures of dental decay and treatment by State and Territory, and national estimates of these measures for 1998. Differences in dental caries experience by geographic location, national trends and international comparisons are also described. JM Armfield, KF Roberts-Thomson AJ Spencer

Dental care considerations for young children

Special care in dentistry : official publication of the American Association of Hospital Dentists, the Academy of Dentistry for the Handicapped, and the American Society for Geriatric Dentistry, 2002

Although the majority of America's children enjoy remarkably good oral health, a significant subset of low-income, minority, medically and developmentally compromised, and socially vulnerable children continue to suffer significant and consequential dental and oral disease. Most of this inequitably distributed disease burden is preventable through early and individualized preventive care. Yet the primary-care medical and dental workforce is ill-prepared to manage the oral health needs of young children. Demographic trends suggest that the problem of disparities in both oral health status and access to competent dental services will continue to worsen for young children. Impediments to improving the oral health of young children include barriers between medical and dental systems of care, paucity of private and safety-net facilities and providers in many areas where vulnerable children reside, and dysfunctional Medicaid insurance programs. Barriers are generated by parents, provi...