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Covid-19 Pandemic Impact On Us Childhood Caries And Potential Mitigation, Christina Scherrer, Shillpa Naavaal, Susan O. Griffin, Mei Lin
Covid-19 Pandemic Impact On Us Childhood Caries And Potential Mitigation, Christina Scherrer, Shillpa Naavaal, Susan O. Griffin, Mei Lin
Dental Public Health and Policy Publications
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 …