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A Health Professional's Guide to Pediatric Oral Health Management

A Health Professional's Guide to Pediatric Oral Health Management
This guide is a series of seven self-contained online modules designed to assist health professionals (for example, physicians, physician assistants, nurses, and dietitians) in managing the oral health of infants and young children. The modules include information on performing oral screenings to identify infants and children at increased risk for oral health problems, offering referrals to oral health professionals, and providing parents with anticipatory guidance.

Open Wide Oral Health Modules Open Wide:
Oral Health Training for Health Professionals

A series of four self-study modules designed to help health and early childhood professionals (for example, Head Start and WIC staff) working in community settings promote oral health.
The modules present providers with information about tooth decay, risk factors, and prevention, and highlight anticipatory guidance to share with parents.
Safety Net Dental Clinic Manual Safety Net Dental Clinic Manual
The manual provides information on partnerships and planning, facilities and staffing, financing, clinic operations, and quality awareness and improvement. Links to sample policies, budget worksheets, design tips, equipment photographs, and Web sites are also included.
Special Care Special Care: An Oral Health Professional’s Guide to Serving Young Children with Special Health Care Needs This series of five self-contained online modules is designed to provide oral health professionals with information to help ensure that young children with special health care needs have access to health promotion and disease prevention services that address their unique oral health needs in a comprehensive, family-centered, and community-based manner.

 

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