Dentists' Attitudes About Their Role in Addressing Obesity in Patients

Curran, Alice E.; Caplan, Daniel J.; Lee, Jessica Y.; Paynter, Lauren; Gizlice, Ziya; Champagne, Catherine; Ammerman, Alice S.; Agans, Robert

doi:10.14219/jada.archive.2010.0075

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“…The majority of articles that related to obesity and periodontal disease suggested an association between the two, specifically noting obesity as a risk factor for periodontal disease [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25] however not all the published articles found a significant association 7,26 .…”

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“…Of these six articles, two were opinion papers 37,38 and four were cross-sectional surveys 22,27,39,40 .…”

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“…A cross-sectional survey of USA of their role in weight management of their patients. From this study the majority of dentists were not interested in delivering weight management monitoring or advice until a definitive link between overweight or obesity and dental health had been established 22 .…”

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A scoping review of the implications of adult obesity in the delivery and acceptance of dental care

Marshall

Loescher²,

Marshman³

2016

Br Dent J

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“…Of these six articles, two were opinion papers 37,38 and four were cross-sectional surveys 22,27,39,40 .…”

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confidence: 99%

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Loescher²,

Marshman³

2016

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“…The evidence suggests that we do not do counsel patients often enough or with great skill 48–53. The evidence also suggests that a multidisciplinary strategy is essential to success 54–56.…”

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Let's move our next generation of patients toward healthy behaviors

Nsiah-Kumi

Kang

Parker

2012

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Health care professionals in all disciplines who care for adults have the opportunity to improve the health of the next generation. The prevalence of overweight and obesity continues to rise in children and adults around the world. As providers caring for adults, our primary goal is to address the health needs of our patients. However, it is important to recognize that counseling our patients who have children can lead them to adopt model behaviors that will be imitated by their children (and therefore improve the weight status and reduce health risks for their children). Additionally, many patients are more motivated to adopt behavior changes for the sake of their children than for their own health. All of 2012’s 11-year-old children may be our adult patients in 10 years – especially if they have already developed weight-related health problems. Anything we do to address childhood obesity is an investment in the health of our patient panels, both now and in the future. While counseling may feel futile at times, there is strong evidence for the power of counseling to shape patient behavior. Counseling adult patients about healthy behaviors will benefit not only our patients today but our patients in the future as well.

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“…In a recent national survey of 2965 dentists, more than 50% reported an interest in offering some form of service to address obesity among their patients (Curran et al, 2010). Several barriers, such as fears of offending patients, appearing judgmental, and lack of training, were identified.…”

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Saliva, Diagnostics, and Dentistry

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Neuwald²,

Greenberg

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Adv Dent Res.

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Saliva, a scientific and clinical entity familiar to every oral health researcher and dental practitioner, has emerged as a translational and clinical commodity that has reached national visibility at the National Institutes of Health and the President's Office of Science and Technology. "Detecting dozens of diseases in a sample of saliva" was issued by President Obama as one of the 14 Grand Challenges for biomedical research in the 21(st) Century (National Economic Council, 2010). In addition, NIH's 2011 Government Performance Report Act (GPRA) listed 10 initiatives in the high-risk long-term category (Collins, 2011). The mandate is to determine the efficacy of using salivary diagnostics to monitor health and diagnose at least one systemic disease by 2013. The stage is set for the scientific community to capture these national and global opportunities to advance and substantiate the scientific foundation of salivary diagnostics to meet these goals. A specific calling is to the oral, dental, and craniofacial health community. Three areas will be highlighted in this paper: the concept of high-impact diagnostics, the role of dentists in diagnostics, and, finally, an infrastructure currently being developed in the United Kingdom--The UK Biobank--which will have an impact on the translational and clinical utilizations of saliva.

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Dentists' Attitudes About Their Role in Addressing Obesity in Patients

Cited by 59 publications

References 16 publications

A scoping review of the implications of adult obesity in the delivery and acceptance of dental care

A scoping review of the implications of adult obesity in the delivery and acceptance of dental care

Let's move our next generation of patients toward healthy behaviors

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