First‐time dental care and the most recent dental treatment in relation to utilisation of dental services among dentate elderly patients in Lithuania

Abstract

Check-up-orientated utilisation of dental services should be encouraged among the Lithuanian elderly. Dentists and health officials should place greater emphasis on prevention.

Prevalence of root canal treatment and periapical radiolucency in elders: a systematic review

“…However, none of the authors intended to report or interpret their data in terms of incidence. The Bjornal and Reit and the Farrell and Burke data described entire national populations, approximately 1 and 9 million elders, respectively; even so the estimates based on their data differed by a factor of more than 2; whereas the Vysniauskaite and Vehkalahti patient‐reported data, which suggested a much higher estimate, included just 122 subjects. For these reasons, we did not subject this data to meta‐analysis.…”

“…Three additional papers reported data from which estimates of the incidence of NSRCT in elders could be calculated. Bjorndal and Reit studied the entire Danish population of elders for eight different years from 1996 to 2003, and for three age groups, 60–69, 70–79 and 80+.…”

“…The state of a disease, or a treatment intervention, in a population is best measured by cross‐sectional study. Although a plethora of articles include epidemiological data on root canal treatment and periapical radiolucency, some including elders, but much heterogeneity exists and trends are not obvious. To date, neither the prevalence of NSRCT, nor PARL, in elders have been subjected to systematic review, often considered to represent the highest level of clinical evidence.…”

Trends in non‐traumatic dental emergency department use in New York and New Jersey: a look at Medicaid expansion from both sides of the Hudson River

“…This is a retrospective analysis of the NY and NJ 2010–2014 State Emergency Department Database (SEDD) of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) collected and maintained by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) . The analysis focuses on all discharges from the ED for NTDCs.…”

“…This is a retrospective analysis of the NY and NJ 2010-2014 State Emergency Department Database (SEDD) of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) collected and maintained by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). 13 The analysis focuses on all discharges from the ED for NTDCs. As is consistent with previous research, these are defined as discharge diagnoses of International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes 520.0 through 529.9 in one of the first five listed diagnosis variables.…”