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Fluoride Varnish: A Resource Guide provides information about the use and application of fluoride varnish. It offers annotated lists of journal articles, materials, and organizations that may serve as resources. (31 pages) |
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Fluoride Varnish: An Effective Tool for Preventing Dental Caries is a fact sheet which provides information about fluoride varnish and its uses, effectiveness, safety, service delivery, and reimbursement for medical professionals as well as for oral health professionals. (4 pages) |
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Pain and Suffering Should Not Be an Option: School-Based and School-Linked Oral Health Services for Children and Adolescents is a fact sheet for health professionals, program administrators, and policymakers. It provides information about the importance of good oral health during childhood and adolescence. Topics discussed include school readiness, disparities, oral trauma, nutrition, dental sealants, fluoride varnish, and school-based and school-linked oral health services. (4 pages) |
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Be an Oral Health Champion is a booklet geared toward Head Start staff. The booklet is designed to help Head Start staff become aware of problems children with poor oral health may experience and to provide them with ideas for how they can promote optimal oral health and prevent oral disease in young children. (4 pages)
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Brochures for Consumers in English and Spanish |
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• Two Healthy Smiles: Tips to Keep You and Your Baby Healthy
• Dos sonrisas saludables: Consejos para mantenerte a ti y a tu bebé sanos
• A Healthy Smile for Your Baby: Tips to Keep Your Baby Healthy
• Una sonrisa saludable para tu bebé: Consejos para mantener sano a tu bebé
• A Healthy Smile for Your Young Child: Tips to Keep Your Child Healthy
• Una sonrisa saludable para tu niño pequeño: Consejos para mantener sano a tu niño
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The Dental Home: Summary from an MCHB Expert Meeting
summarizes a meeting of experts held September 18 and 19, 2008, in Washington, DC to define the concept of a dental home. Topics include exploring of the concept as it relates the to philosophy and goals of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, the relationships between the medical and dental home concepts, and concepts defining and establishing dental homes and identifying promising practices and programs for implementing dental homes. (38 pages)
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Oral Health for Children with Special Health Care Needs: Priorities for Action—Recommendations from an MCHB Expert Meeting summarizes strategies and key partners for improving the oral health of children with special health care needs as well as the oral health care delivery system for this population in three priority areas: medical home and dental home interface, education and training, and financing. (20 pages) |
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Promoting Oral Health in Schools: A Resource Guide provides
references to journal articles, reports and other materials,
and organizations to assist health professionals, program administrators, educators, researchers, policymakers, parents, and others working in school settings prevent disease and promote oral health in children and adolescents. (44 pages) |
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The Oral
Health Resource Bulletin is a series
that provides information about current materials
of interest. A brief synopsis and acquisition information
is provided for each item.
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Oral
Health and Pregnant Women, Infants, Children and
Adolescents: Knowledge
Path describes
current, high-quality resources
that analyze data, describe effective programs,
and report on policy and research. (Online)
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Two
Healthy Smiles: Tips to Keep You and Your Baby Healthy is
about the importance of oral hygiene and oral health
care during pregnancy. Topics include brushing, flossing,
eating healthy foods, and getting dental checkups
and treatment. (2 pages)
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Oral
Health Care During Pregnancy: A Summary of Practice
Guidelines summarizes
the New York State
Department of Health’s publication, Oral
Health Care During Pregnancy and Early Childhood: Practice
Guidelines,
which is geared toward prenatal and oral health professionals.
The guidelines are intended to bring about changes in the
health care delivery system and to improve the standard
of care for pregnant women. (8 pages) |
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Access
to Oral Health Care During the Perinatal Period:
A Policy Brief was
developed to help professionals and the public better
understand the importance of oral health during the
perinatal period. The brief describes barriers to accessing
oral health services and information—including
myths and misperceptions—and presents potential
solutions. (8
pages) |
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Dentists
and Head Start: What You Should Know and How You
Can Help provides information about
how dentists can help address the oral health
needs of pregnant women, infants, and children enrolled
in Head Start. (4 pages) |
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Dental
Hygienists and Head Start: What You Should Know
and How You Can Help provides information
about how dental hygienists can help address the
oral health needs of pregnant women, infants, and
children enrolled in Head Start. (4 pages) |
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The Oral
Health Resource Bulletin is a series
that provides information about current materials
of interest. A brief synopsis and acquisition information
is provided for each item. (c. 25 pages)
Volume XX |
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The
Bellwether: Leading Local Efforts to Improve the
Nation's Oral Health is
the newsletter of the American
Association for Community Dental Programs. (Online) |
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A
Way with Words: Guidelines for Writing Oral Health
Materials for Audiences with Limited Literacy provides
ideas to help those who produce oral health educational
materials
make
the materials easy for everyone to understand. (2
pages) |
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Head Start Oral
Health Curricula at-a-Glance PDF | Excel compares
components of oral-health-related curricula
appropriate for use in Head Start programs. For each curriculum,
the matrix specifies the title, audience, topics, and availability.
The Excel version can be used to sort data in the matrix.
(4 pages) |
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Head
Start Oral Health Resource Guide describes
a variety of resources including recent journal articles,
materials for use by health professionals and Head
Start staff, and organizations that may serve as
additional resources. (49 pages) |
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Mobile-Portable
Dental Manual is
an online manual focusing on using public health
approaches to create health
care systems to serve populations that have difficulty
accessing the traditional system of oral health service
delivery. Produced in collaboration with the Association
of State and Territorial Dental Directors and the
American Association for Community Dental Programs.
(Online)
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Seal
America:
The Prevention Invention, 2nd Edition,
is an
online manual designed to assist health professionals
in initiating and implementing a school-based dental
sealant program to prevent tooth decay in children. (Online) |
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Web-Based
Manuals for Professionals Working to Improve the
Public's Oral Health is
a brochure that describes three manuals developed for
use by professionals:
(1) the Mobile-Portable Dental Manual, (2) the Safety
Net Dental Clinic Manual, and (3) Seal America:
The Prevention Invention (2nd ed.). Brief descriptions
of each manual are presented, along with chapter titles
and selected features. (Brochure) |
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Web-Based
Oral Health Curricula for Health Professionals and
Human Service Providers is
a brochure that describes two curricula and one
continuing education
course on
oral health-promotion and disease-prevention services.
(Brochure) |
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Research
to Policy and Practice Forum: Periodontal Health
and Birth Outcomes
is a report from a December 2006 forum
that addressed the relationship between periodontal health
and birth outcomes. Meeting
materials are also posted online. (26 pages) |
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Maternal
Oral Health Resource Guide provides
information aimed at improving oral health care for
pregnant women. It is divided into three sections:
journal articles, materials, and organizations. (32 pages) |
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Strategies
to Improve Health by Enhancing the Integration of
Oral Health and Maternal and Child Health Programs
explains how to improve oral and general health. Topics
include the importance of oral health, the benefits of
integrating
oral health and MCH activities, and areas
for collaboration. (4 pages) |
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Special
Care: An Oral Health Professional's Guide to Serving
Young Children with Special Health Care Needs is
a distance learning curriculum for oral
health professionals. Four continuing education
credits are available to registered users upon successful
completion. (Online) |
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Promoting
the Oral Health of Children with Special Health Care
Needs: In Support of the National Agenda
provides suggestions for oral-health-promotion
activities. It addresses the six critical indicators
of a comprehensive system of care identified by the Maternal
and Child Health Bureau: (1) medical home, (2) insurance
coverage, (3) screening, (4) organization of services,
(5) family roles, and (6) transition to adulthood. (4 pages) |
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The Oral
Health Alert: Focus on Head Start is
a free monthly electronic newsletter that provides
timely information about national campaigns and initiatives,
Web sites, data releases, materials, and journal
articles. (Online)
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Dental
Sealant Resource Guide (2nd ed.) provides
information about dental sealants and promotes their
use in preventing dental caries. The
guide lists journal articles, materials, and organizations
that may serve as additional resources. (25 pages) |
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Oral
Health Services for Children and Adolescents with Special
Health Care Needs: Resource Guide provides
references to journal articles, reports and other materials,
and organizations to assist health professionals in their
efforts to ensure
that
children
and adolescents
with special health care needs receive optimal oral health
care. Entries contain bibliographic information, an annotation,
and contact information. (26 pages) |
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Strategies
for Improving the Oral Health System of Care for
Children and Adolescents
with Special Health Care Needs outlines
strategies for health professionals in planning, developing,
and implementing state and local efforts to
ensure access to oral health care for children and adolescents
with special health care needs. (2 pages) |
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Oral
Health for Children and Adolescents with Special
Health Care Needs: Challenges and Opportunities is
a fact sheet with topics including unmet oral health
care needs, oral health and
general health and well-being, barriers to oral
health care such as lack of insurance or qualified health
professionals, and how Medicaid and other publicly financed
reimbursement methods offer opportunities for care. (2
pages) |
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Child and Adolescent Oral Health
Issues provides information
on current issues in child and adolescent oral health.
Topics include access to care, children and adolescents
with special health care needs, dental caries, fluoride,
dental sealants, injury and violence, and tobacco. (2 pages) |
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Bright
Futures in Practice: Oral Health—Pocket
Guide is designed to help health professionals
implement specific oral health supervision guidelines during
pregnancy
and the postpartum period, infancy, early childhood, middle
childhood, and adolescence. It addresses risk assessment
for dental caries, periodontal disease, malocclusion, and
injury. (89 pages)
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Open
Wide: Oral Health Training for Health Professionals is
a distance learning curriculum designed to help health
and early childhood professionals working in community
settings (e.g., Head Start, WIC) promote
oral health in the course of promoting general health for
infants, children, and their families. (Online)
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Oral
Health and Health in Women: A Two-Way Relationship provides
general information and national data on women’s
oral health. Topics include women’s oral health status,
the relationship between oral health and general health
in women, oral health care, and strategies for improving
women’s oral health. (2 pages) |
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Promoting
Awareness, Preventing Pain: Facts on Early Childhood
Caries (2nd ed.) provides
information on early childhood caries. It describes the
causes of the
problem, its impact on the child’s health, and infection
statistics. The fact sheet also lists prevention methods
and offers recommendations for health professionals. (2
pages) |
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Early
Childhood Caries Resource Guide (2nd ed.) provides
references to journal articles, reports and other
materials,
and organizations to assist health professionals
and others in the prevention of early childhood caries.
(28 pages) |
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A
Health Professional's Guide to Pediatric Oral Health
Management is
a distance learning curriculum designed to assist health
professionals. It includes 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. (Online) |
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Head
Start: An Opportunity to Improve the Oral Health
of Children and Families discusses Head
Start programs’ potential role in providing participants
with access to oral health services, including education,
screenings, and examinations. Topics include a profile
of current Head Start participants, access to oral health
services, oral health status, and promising strategies.
(2 pages) |
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Oral Health Tip Sheets for
Head Start Staff outline strategies
to comply with Head
Start Program Performance Standards involving
an
ongoing source
of
continuous, accessible care; the recommended
schedule of preventive and primary care visits;
family partnerships;
education; and community partnerships.
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Oral
Health and Learning: When Children's Oral Health
Suffers, So Does Their Ability to Learn (2nd ed.) addresses
lost school time and restricted-activity
days, oral health and learning, nutrition and learning,
and programs for improving oral health. (2 pages) |
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Preventing
Tooth Decay and Saving Teeth with Dental Sealants.
(2nd ed.) provides
information for health professionals, program administrators,
educators, and policymakers on
the
use of dental sealants in preventing tooth decay and in
arresting the progression of decay, discussing
strategies for improving awareness of dental sealants,
costs and benefits related to the application of dental
sealants, access to care issues, and school- and community-based
dental sealant programs. (2 pages) |
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Safety
Net Dental Clinic Manual was
developed to assist oral health professionals working
in implementing a safety
net dental clinic. Topics include information on partnerships
and planning, facility design and staffing, financing,
clinic operations, and quality awareness and improvement.
Produced in collaboration with the Ohio Department of
Health, Bureau of Oral Health Services; U.S. Indian
Health
Service; and the Association of State and Territorial
Dental Directors. (Online) |
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Women's Oral Health Resource Guide provides
references to journal articles, educational materials,
and professional organizations and federal agencies as
resources to help professionals with the aim of improving
oral health guidance and care for women. (23 pages) |
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Pediatric
Dental Disease: A Critical Marker for Children's
Overall
Health.
(1998). This paper discusses oral disease within
the broad spectrum of overall
health. Tooth decay may serve as a sentinel disease
for other pediatric conditions related to inadequate
diet and
hygiene, self-esteem and personal well-being, family
conditions, and ability to access care. (2 pages)
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The
Cost of Caring: Emergency Oral Health Services.
(1998). This policy brief examines the issue
of emergency rooms
being
used as a primary
source of oral health care for children from
families with low incomes, who access such care only
when oral problems have become severe. (3 pages)
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Creating
a Dental Network (Make or Buy?) and Selecting
a Dental Vendor. (1998).
This paper summarizes
the requirements
of a dental program, compares the differences between
medical and dental managed care delivery, and discusses
whether to "make" or "buy" a dental
program (i.e., whether to develop the internal capabilities
or to contract with a qualified vendor to develop and
manage such a program). (10 pages)
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