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Ensuring Access To Oral Health Care For Children: School-Based Care By Dental Therapists - A Commentary, David A. Nash, Kavita R. Mathu-Muju, Jay W. Friedman
Ensuring Access To Oral Health Care For Children: School-Based Care By Dental Therapists - A Commentary, David A. Nash, Kavita R. Mathu-Muju, Jay W. Friedman
Oral Health Science Faculty Publications
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Societal Expectations And The Profession's Responsibility To Reform The Dental Workforce To Ensure Access To Care For Children, David A. Nash
Societal Expectations And The Profession's Responsibility To Reform The Dental Workforce To Ensure Access To Care For Children, David A. Nash
Oral Health Science Faculty Publications
Societal expectations raise the issue of the nature of a profession and a profession's relationship with society. Influential policy leaders want reform of the oral health workforce and delivery system in such a manner as to ensure that improvements are made for accessing care, particularly for vulnerable and disadvantaged populations, especially children. This essay is based on a presentation to the House of Delegates of the California Dental Association on Nov.13, 2009.
On Why The Dental Therapists' "Movement" In The United States Should Focus On Children--Not Adults, David A. Nash
On Why The Dental Therapists' "Movement" In The United States Should Focus On Children--Not Adults, David A. Nash
Oral Health Science Faculty Publications
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Adding Dental Therapists To The Health Care Team To Improve Access To Oral Health Care For Children, David A. Nash
Adding Dental Therapists To The Health Care Team To Improve Access To Oral Health Care For Children, David A. Nash
Oral Health Science Faculty Publications
Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General, and the subsequent National Call to Action to Promote Oral Health, contributed significantly to raising awareness regarding the lack of access to oral health care by many Americans, especially minority and low-income populations, with resulting disparities in oral health. The problem is particularly acute among children. The current dental workforce in the United States is inadequate to meet the oral health care needs of children. It is inadequate in terms of numbers of dentists, as well as their geographic distribution, ethnicity, education, and practice orientation. Dental therapists, paraprofessionals …
A Brief History And Current Status Of A Dental Therapy Initiative In The United States, David A. Nash, Ron J. Nagel
A Brief History And Current Status Of A Dental Therapy Initiative In The United States, David A. Nash, Ron J. Nagel
Oral Health Science Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Developing And Deploying A New Member Of The Dental Team: A Pediatric Oral Health Therapist, David A. Nash
Developing And Deploying A New Member Of The Dental Team: A Pediatric Oral Health Therapist, David A. Nash
Oral Health Science Faculty Publications
There are inadequate numbers of dentists able and willing to treat America's children, specifically children from low income and minority populations. This has led to the well-publicized disparities in oral health among children. In the early part of the 20th century New Zealand faced a significant problem with oral disease among its children and introduced a School Dental Service, staffed by allied dental professionals with two years' training in caring for the teeth of children, "school dental nurses." A significant number of countries have adopted the model. This article reviews the history of attempts to develop such an approach …
Developing A Pediatric Oral Health Therapist To Help Address Oral Health Disparities Among Children, David A. Nash
Developing A Pediatric Oral Health Therapist To Help Address Oral Health Disparities Among Children, David A. Nash
Oral Health Science Faculty Publications
Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General documented the profound and significant disparities that exist in the oral health of children in the United States. Recently, the country has been issued a National Call to Action to Promote Oral Health, under the leadership of the Office of the Surgeon General. Among the significant factors contributing to the disparities problem is the access to oral health care by disadvantaged populations. There are inadequate numbers of dentists able and willing to treat children, particularly poor and minority children. In the early part of the twentieth century, New Zealand …