Proceedings
Children with Special Health Care Needs Forums
These forums brought oral health advocates together to develop action plans to improve access to care and oral health status of children with special health care needs.
The Dental Home: Summary from an MCHB Expert Meeting
This report summarizes a meeting of experts held September 18 and 19, 2008, in Washington, DC to define the concept of a dental home.
Developing an Oral Health Medicaid Portability Model for Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Children: An Expert Meeting
This report summarizes a meeting held on March 10-11, 2008, in Washington, DC, on opportunities and challenges in addressing Medicaid eligibility and enrollment for children of migrant and seasonal farmworkers enrolled in Head Start.
Filling an Urgent Need: Improving Children's Access to Dental Care in Medicaid and SCHIP
This report describes a meeting of national and state experts held in October 2007 to address children’s access to oral health care in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
Head Start Forums
National, regional, and state forums were held in response to the 1999 Head Start and Partners Oral Health Forum and supported by an intra-agency agreement between the Office of Head Start and the Maternal and Child Health Bureau.
Improving Perinatal Oral Health: Moving Forward—An Expert Meeting, Meeting Summary Report
This report summarizes the perinatal oral health meeting held on September 8, 2008, in Washington, DC.
Oral Health for Children with Special Health Care Needs: Priorities for Action—Recommendations from an MCHB Expert Meeting
This report summarizes a meeting held April 14-15, 2008, in Washington, DC, on strategies and key partners for improving the oral health of children with special health care needs, particularly in regard to the medical home and dental home interface, education and training, and financing.
Proceedings of the March 23-25, 2009 Access to Dental Care Summit
These proceedings summarize a meeting held in Chicago, IL to create a shared vision to improve the oral health of underserved populations throughout the nation and to develop a draft implementation plan for improving access to care.
Regional and State Summits
Summits were held following the 1998 Health Resources and Services Administration and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Building Partnerships to Improve Children's Access to Medicaid Oral Health Services national conference.
Research
to Policy and Practice Forum: Periodontal Health
and Birth Outcomes—Summary of a Meeting of
Maternal, Child, and Oral Health Experts
This report summarizes presentations of commissioned background papers and other topics, as well as workgroup discussions from a forum convened by the Health Resources and Services Administration's Maternal and Child Health Bureau, held on December 11-12, 2006, in Washington, DC.
Topical Fluoride Recommendations for High-Risk Children: Development of Decision Support Matrix
This report summarizes recommendations on the use of topical fluoride in preventing and controlling tooth decay from an expert panel convened on October 22–23, 2007, in Washington, DC.
