Archive of Spotlighted Materials

Fluoride Varnish

• Fluoride Varnish: An Effective Tool for Preventing Dental Caries
• Fluoride Varnish: A Resource Guide
• Resource Highlights: Fluoride Varnish

School Oral Health Services

• Pain and Suffering Shouldn't Be an Option: School-Based and School-Linked Oral Health Services for Children and Adolescents
  
• Resource Highlights: School-Based and School-Linked Services
• Order online

Library

• Resources on fluoride varnish from the Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors
• Fluoride Varnish [policy statement] (2009)
• Fluoride Varnish: An Evidence-Based Approach (2007)

• Be an Oral Health Champion booklet for Head Start staff. Also available as a poster to download and print (not available to order).
• Knowledge Path: Oral Health for Infants, Children, Adolescents, and Pregnant Women
• Materials for Children's Dental Health Month
  • American Dental Association
  • Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Office of Oral Health
  • National Museum of Dentistry

Head Start Resources

• OHRC's Head Start Web Pages
  
  • Oral Health Alert: Focus on Head Start
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Links to Organizations
• American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry's Head Start Dental Home Initiative, with funding from the Office of Head Start
  • Program Information
  • Find a Regional or State Consultant

Get Ready for National Children's Dental Health Month in February

• American Dental Association
• Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Office of Oral Health
• National Museum of Dentistry

• OHRC has listed distance learning curricula with TRAIN, the TrainingFinder Real-time Affiliate Integrated Network
  • Register at TRAIN.org
  • Search for courses by subject (Oral Health)
  • Earn free continuing education credits or a completion certificate through TRAIN (read course descriptions for details)
    
  • Oral health professionals licensed in Ohio can find curricula at the Ohio Dental Safety Net Information Center
• New Resource Highlights: Health Literacy
• American Academy of Pediatrics Releases Special Issue on Children's Oral Health in Academic Pediatrics
  • The National Summit on Children's Dental Health
  • The 2008 Periodic Survey of Pediatricians' Office Practices in Oral Health

New OHRC Feature: Resource Highlights

• Focus on Early Childhood Caries
• Focus on Fluoridated Community Water
• Focus on Head Start
• Focus on Pregnancy and Periodontal Health

• New Consumer Brochures in English and Spanish

OHRC

• Oral Health and Learning: When Children's Oral Health Suffers, So Does Their Ability to Learn
• Head Start Curricula at-a-Glance
• Promoting Oral Health in Schools: A Resource Guide

and Others

• National Children’s Dental Health Month Program Materials: Order Now for February Event
  American Dental Association
• Oral Health for Kids e-Card; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

OHRC

• The Dental Home: Summary from an MCHB Expert Meeting
  • Report
  • Presentation

Library

• Environmental Factors in Implementing the Dental Home for All Young Children
  National Oral Health Policy Center at the Children's Dental Health Project

  Topical Fluoride Recommendations for High-Risk Children: Development of Decision Support Matrix

• Report
• Matrix
• Presentation

Developing an Oral Health Medicaid Portability Model for Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Children: An Expert Meeting

• Report
• Presentation

OHRC

• Oral Health for Children with Special Health Care Needs: Priorities for Action— Recommendations from an MCHB Expert Meeting
  • Report
  • Presentation

Library

• ASTDD Support For State CSHCN Oral Health Forums, Action Plans And Follow-Up Activities:
  Interim Evaluation Summary, March 2009

• Oral Health Resource Bulletin: Volume XXI
  
• Promoting Oral Health in Schools: A Resource Guide
• Oral Health for Children with Special Health Care Needs: Priorities for Action--Recommendations from an MCHB Expert Meeting

National Oral Health Conference, Portland, Oregon

• OHRC on exhibit April 20-22
  
• Medicaid/SCHIP Dental Association Annual Symposium April 19
  • OHRC presentation 8 am, April 19
    
• American Association for Community Dental Programs Annual Symposium April 19

Learn About CHIP Reauthorization

• CHIP Reauthorization: Renewed Support for Children's Oral Health
  Children's Dental Health Project
• Key Facts: Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009
  Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
• CHIPRA 101: Overview of the CHIP Reauthorization Legislation
  Families USA
  

• April 6: National Medicaid Dental Town Hall Forum
  • Attend forum (register by April 1) or Webcast
  • Agenda
  • Discussion points
  • Presentation slides: Arizona, Maryland, Virginia
  • National Dental Summary Report
    
• April 16: Engaging Providers to Improve Perinatal and Infant Oral Health
  
• Register and access archives of last month's Webcasts online at www.MCHcom.com

• March 10: Accessing Oral Health Care through WIC
  
• March 18: Oral Health and Medicaid Portability
  • Presentation
  • Expert meeting summary report
• April 6: National Medicaid Dental Town Hall Forum
  • Attend forum (register by April 1) or Webcast
  • Agenda
  • Discussion points
  • Presentation slides: Arizona, Maryland, Virginia
  • National Dental Summary Report
    
• April 16: Engaging Providers to Improve Perinatal and Infant Oral Health
  • Expert meeting summary report
  • Presentation
  • Policy brief
  • Summary of practice guidelines
  • Consumer brochure
• Register and access archives online at www.MCHcom.com

OHRC

• Revised for 2009
  Oral Health for Infants, Children, Adolescents, and Pregnant Women: Knowledge Path
• Order OHRC Publications for education, training, and outreach

Library

• Oral Health for Kids e-Card
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• For the Dental Patient
  American Dental Association
• Proper Brushing
  American Dental Hygienists' Association
• Seal Out Tooth Decay
  National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research

OHRC

• Oral Health and Learning: When Children's Oral Health Suffers, So Does Their Ability to Learn
• Promoting Awareness, Preventing Pain: Facts on Early Childhood Caries
• Two Healthy Smiles: Tips to Keep You and Your Baby Healthy
• Order Form

Library

• Children's Dental Health Bulletin Board
  Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Office of Oral Health
• Snack Smart for Healthy Teeth
  National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
• Brush Up on Healthy Teeth
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• Call for Materials: Promoting Oral Health in Schools. Share your publications, such as curricula, policy statements, clinical guidelines, manuals, and protocols, with OHRC for inclusion in a resource guide on promoting oral health in schools.
• State Laws on Dental "Screening" for School-Age Children. National Oral Health Policy Center
• Guidelines for Oral Health Screening in Ohio's Schools. Ohio Department of Health

From OHRC: Distance Learning

• Clinical Operations for Safety Net Dental Clinics in Ohio
• Financial Management for Safety Net Dental Clinics in Ohio
• Oral Health Care for Young Children in Ohio
• More from OHRC on our Publications page

Library: Recently Released Goverment Reports

• Dental Coverage of Children and Young Adults Under age 21, United States, 1996 and 2006. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
• Medicaid: Extent of Dental Disease in Children has not Decreased, and Millions are Estimated to Have Untreated Tooth Decay. Government Accountability Office.
• Policy Issues in the Delivery of Dental Services to Medicaid Children and Their Families. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

• Domestic Violence and Oral Health

From OHRC

• Access to Oral Health Care During the Perinatal Period: A Policy Brief
• Two Healthy Smiles: Tips to Keep You and Your Baby Healthy
• Oral Health Care During Pregnancy: A Summary of Practice Guidelines
• Oral Health Resource Bulletin: Volume XX

Library

• Smiles for Life: A National Oral Health Curriculum (2nd ed.)
  Society of Teachers of Family Medicine

• Guidelines for Oral Health Screening in Ohio's Schools
  Ohio Department of Health, Bureau of Oral Health Services
• Healthy Children Happy Smiles
  West Virginia Head Start Association

•  Timeline of Head Start Oral Health Activities
• Professionally Applied Topical Fluoride: Evidence-based Clinical Recommendations Decision Support Tool
  American Dental Association
• Georgia Oral Health Prevention Program Fluoride Varnish Manual: Resources and Information
  Georgia Department of Human Resources

• 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.

•  Oral Health Resource Bulletin: Volume XIX now features active hyperlinks in the electronic version. The bulletin provides information about current materials of interest. A brief synopsis and acquisition information is provided for each item.

• Dental Hygienists and Head Start: What You Should Know and How You Can Help
  This new tip sheet from OHRC provides information about how dental hygienists can help address the oral health needs of pregnant women, infants, and children enrolled in Head Start.
• American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) Announces Partnership with Head Start
  The Office of Head Start (OHS) has awarded a five-year, $10 million dollar contract to the AAPD to establish dental homes for one million children enrolled annually in OHS programs.

• OHRC's Knowledge Path: Oral Health and Pregnant Women, Infants, Children and Adolescents has been updated for 2008. It describes current, high-quality resources that analyze data, describe effective programs, and report on policy and research.
• The American Dental Association has posted information about their 2008 campaign to raise awareness of the importance of oral health, activities for children, and presentation resources.
• The American Academy of Pediatrics has joined with television personality and author Joan Lunden to help raise parents' awareness about the importance of children's oral health and to teach healthy oral care habits.
• The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry Foundation has posted a resource for new parent education, a children's activity book, and information on the dental home.

• A Way with Words: Guidelines for Writing Oral Health Materials for Audiences with Limited Literacy
  This new fact sheet from OHRC provides tips that can help you write educational oral health materials that are easy for everyone to understand.

• National Primary Oral Health Care (NPOHC) Conference Features Sessions on Dental Sealants
  Coordinating with Seal America: The Prevention Invention, 2nd edition, a series of sessions will address partnership opportunities between community and migrant health centers and school-based dental sealant programs. View presentations and abstracts from past NPOHC conferences.
• Ohio Dental Safety Net Information Center
  OHRC worked in partnership with the Ohio Department of Health to develop this Web site, with support from the Anthem Foundation of Ohio. The site provides information necessary to start and maintain the operations and delivery of oral health care services in safety net dental clinics in Ohio.

Free Continuing Education Credits!

• Special Care: An Oral Health Professional’ s Guide to Serving Young Children with Special Health Care Needs

Frequently Requested Resources

• Smiles for Ohio Fluoride Varnish Program for Primary Care Providers
• Research to Policy and Practice: Periodontal Health and Birth Outcomes
• Maternal Oral Health Resource Guide

• Bright Futures in Practice: Oral Health— Pocket Guide provides an overview of the publication Bright Futures in Practice: Oral Health and is designed to help health professionals implement specific oral health guidelines during pregnancy and postpartum, infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence.
• Knowledge Path: Oral Health and Children and Adolescents, an online guide, is updated annually to include general resources, resources on specific aspects of oral health, and resources for families.
• Bright Futures Toolbox highlights materials that advance the Bright Futures philosophy of promoting and improving the oral health of infants, children, and adolescents.
• A Way with Words: Guidelines for Writing Oral Health Materials for Audiences with Limited Literacy provides simple tips to make the oral health materials you produce easier to understand.

• 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.
• Oral Health Resource Bulletin: Volume XVIII is the latest in a series
  that provides information about current materials of interest. A brief synopsis and acquisition information is provided for each item.

Recently Cataloged in OHRC's Library...

• Michigan Department of Community Health and Michigan Dental Association. 2007. Don't Wait Until It Hurts. Lansing, MI: Michigan Department of Community Health and Michigan Dental Association.
  
  This brochure instructs parents and other caregivers on how to care for children's teeth, emphasizing the need for regular dental visits (examinations, cleanings, fluoride treatments, dental sealants, fillings) to keep teeth healthy.
• Perkins, J. Medicaid Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment: State Innovation Leads to Improved Oral Health Participation Rates. 2007. Chapel Hill, NC: National Health Law Program.
  
  This report provides an overview of child oral health screening rates and summarizes initiatives to increase children's utilization of oral health care through the Medicaid Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT) program in six states.

•   Mobile-Portable Dental Manual
  The Mobile-Portable Dental Manual is now online. The manual's 5 chapters provide important information to help make decisions about programs using mobile vehicles, portable equipment, or a combination system. Mobile-Portable Dental Manual is a companion to the online Safety Net Dental Clinic Manual.

•  Seal America: The Prevention Invention (2nd ed.)
  We are pleased to announce the availability of Seal America: The Prevention Invention (2nd ed.), an online manual designed to assist health professionals in initiating and implementing a school-based dental sealant program to prevent tooth decay in children. The online manual, prepared by Nancy Carter with the assistance of the American Association for Community Dental Programs and the National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center, provides practical guidance for individuals who wish to start a school-based dental sealant program.

•  Oral Health Resource Bulletin: Volume XVII is the latest in a series
  that provides information about current materials of interest. A brief synopsis and acquisition information is provided for each item.
• Research to Policy and Practice Forum: Periodontal Health and Birth Outcomes
  This December 2006 forum addressed the relationship between periodontal health and birth outcomes. Meeting materials are posted online.

• A-Z List
  Use the A-Z list to find basic information, oral health topics, and frequently requested materials. Resources include links, lists of OHRC-produced materials, and lists of materials from our oral health library.
• Head Start Oral Health Curricula at-a-Glance
  This matrix prepared by the National Head Start Oral Heatlh Resource Center provides information about oral-health-related curricula appropriate for use in Head Start programs. For each curriculum, the matrix specifies the title, audience, topics, and availability.
  
  The matrix is available to view as a PDF file, or to download as an Excel file to allow users to search and sort the information by category.

• Special Care: An Oral Health Professional’s Guide to Serving Young Children with Special Health Care Needs now offers continuing education (CE) credits
  Four CE credits through the American Dental Hygienists' Association or through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Indian Health Service, will be awarded upon successful completion of this course. The course is free, but registration is required.

• Associations Promote State Dental Periodicity Schedules
  In late 2006, the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) kicked off an initiative to promote state adoption of dental periodicity schedule consistent with AAPD guidelines. AAPD sent a letter to each state Medicaid director, and a supportive letter was also distributed by the Medicaid/SCHIP Dental Association. Read more on AAPD's Web site.

• The Maternal Oral Health Resource Guide is designed to assist health professionals, educators, program administrators, and others working to promote and improve the oral health of pregnant women, infants, and young children. The guide is divided into three sections: journal articles that appeared in the literature between January 2004 and November 2006; materials, such as curricula, fact sheets, guidelines, reports, and audiovisual materials; and organizations, such as federal agencies, professionals associations, and policy centers that may serve as additional resources.
• Oral Health Resource Bulletin: Volume XVI is the latest in a series designed to stimulate thinking and creativity within the MCH community by providing information about current materials of interest. Materials listed in the bulletin address topics including dental sealants, early childhood caries, fluoride, oral injury and first aid, strategic planning, Head Start, and Medicaid.
• Periodontal Health and Birth Outcomes
  Highlights from the Washington, DC forum to address the relationship between periodontal health and birth outcomes. Meeting materials, including the agenda, selected presentations, and a link to the full text of a relevant 2006 journal article by Michalowicz et al have been posted.

• Oral Health Institute Reports Available
  The Maternal and Child Health Bureau funded four Oral Health Institutes that focused on developing and sustaining partnerships that improve oral health outcomes.
  • Best Practices for Oral Health Access: A Center for Health Care Strategies "Purchasing Institute"
  • Maternal and Child Oral Health Institute: Atlanta
  • Maternal and Child Oral Health Institute: Region I
  • Maternal and Child Oral Health Institute: Region VIII
• Updated Knowledge Path: Oral Health and Children and Adolescents
  This guide points to high-quality resources that analyze data, describe effective programs, and report on policy and research aimed at improving access to and the quality of oral health for children and adolescents. Separate sections identify resources on specific aspects of oral health including dental sealants, early childhood caries, fluoride varnish, Head Start, child care, school-based education, and school-based care. The final section lists oral health resources for consumers.
• Strategies to Improve Health by Enhancing the Integration of Oral Health and Maternal and Child Health Programs, a tip sheet from OHRC, explains how to improve oral and general health within the MCH population by better integrating oral health activities and information into state and local MCH programs. Topics include the importance of oral health, the benefits of integrating oral health and MCH activities, and areas for collaboration.
• OHRC has converted A Guide for Developing and Enhancing Community Oral Health Programs, released earlier this year by the American Association for Community Dental Programs, into interactive Web pages. Now you can browse through the Guide and use the links and other interactive features online.
• Dental Sealant Resource Guide (2nd ed.) encourages the exchange of information about dental sealants and promotes their use to prevent dental caries. The guide is divided into three sections. The first section lists journal articles that appeared in the literature between January 2004 and March 2006. The second section lists materials, including books, curricula, fact/tip sheets, guidelines, manuals, reports, papers, and CD-ROMs. The third section lists organizations, including federal agencies, policy and resource centers, and professional associations that may serve as resources.
• Oral Health Resource Bulletin: Volume XV contains descriptions of brochures, posters, and fact sheets for consumers; materials from MCHB-funded institutes, Head Start oral health forums, the State Oral Health Collaborative Systems grantee meeting, and other conferences; policy-related fact sheets, briefs, and statements; education and training materials for health professionals; and materials from state- and community-based programs. A brief synopsis and acquisition information is provided for each item.