How Dental Care Can Preserve and Improve Oral Health

Vargas, Clemencia M.; Arévalo, Oscar

doi:10.1016/j.cden.2009.03.011

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“…It is a fact that the burden of oral disease is overwhelmingly born by those who can least afford it. 22,23 Da Silva applied the concepts of sustaining and disruptive innovations to oral health care delivery identifying dental sustaining innovation as highly technical treatments or instruments, and new therapeutic surgical techniques. 27 While potentially producing great oral health benefits, these highly technical sustaining innovations are also expensive for both the dentist and the patient, often beyond affordability by those who bear the greatest burden of oral and systemic diseases.…”

Section: Conceptual Inclusion Of Dental Hygienists In the Health Carementioning

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“…These services do not necessarily require expensive ever-evolving new technologies.11 Additionally, dental hygiene care as a disruptive innovation is of great societal value because dental hygienists deliver quality oral health care at a lower cost and are accessible to more people, especially those in most need. 21,22 However, the rationale for higher oral health care cost provided by dentists compared to the same care delivered by dental hygienists in the U.S. is complex. 28 An increase in corporate-owned dental practices offer new dentists some financial security but also production pressures to ensure corporate investors profits.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…75 Vargas and Arevalo warned that under-utilization of dental hygienists decreased health care productivity and contributed to access to the present oral health care crisis. 22 …”

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Dental Hygienists as Essential Members of the Health Care Team

Juhl¹

2018

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ResumenA pesar del avance de la odontología, de los innovadores programas de salud y de los esfuerzos del personal odontológico existe una gran prevalencia de enfermedad bucal no cubierta y el gasto que esta ocasiona va en crecimiento. En el presente la oferta de servicios de salud bucal necesita ser mejorada. La incorporación de los higienistas dentales como miembros esenciales del equipo de atención primaria de la salud pueden contribuir a mejorar los resultados en términos de cobertura costo efectiva, este artículo proporciona definiciones de varios países así como de los estados Unidos de Norte América, describe sus programas educativos, sus funciones y la contribución que estos hacen en el equipo de salud.Palabras clave: higienista dental, equipo médico, dentista, inter relaciones orales, calidad, costo-efectiva. AbstractDespite the advances in dental sciences, innovative oral health programs, and efforts dedicated by oral health professionals, globally, unmet oral disease, and the economic loss it causes, is growing. In the present, oral health care delivery systems urgently need improvement. The introduction of dental hygienists as essential members of the health care team can contribute to improved and cost-effective health care outcomes. This paper provides definitions of dental hygienists from both, an international and the United States (U.S.) and describes their education, functions, and contributions to the health care team.

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Section: Conceptual Inclusion Of Dental Hygienists In the Health Carementioning

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“…In dentistry, most oral diseases are neither self-limiting nor self-repairing (Vargas & Arevalo, 2009). Therefore, prompt professional care is fundamental, given that oral diseases follow a downward spiral: incipient diseases requiring minimum dental care, if untreated, progress into diseases that require increasingly more complex and expensive treatments; increases in complexity and cost usually make the treatment even more out of reach for a large proportion of the population (Vargas & Ronzio, 2002).…”

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“…As the caries process progresses without some type of intervention, the pulp ultimately becomes involved and the root canal therapy is required (Vargas & Arevalo, 2009). One of the steps in root canal treatment is to completely fill the root canal system.…”

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Finite element Analysis in Dentistry – Improving the quality of oral health care

Soares¹,

Versluis²,

Valdivia³

et al. 2012

Finite Element Analysis - From Biomedical Applications to Industrial Developments

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Providing Care for Underserved Patients: Endodontic Residents’, Faculty Members’, and Endodontists’ Educational Experiences and Professional Attitudes and Behavior

Inglehart

Schneider

Bauer

et al. 2014

Journal of Dental Education

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In the United States, access to dental care is often challenging for patients from socioeconomically disadvantaged and/ or minority populations and for patients with special health care needs (SHCN). The objectives of this study were to a) explore endodontic residents', endodontic faculty members', and private practice endodontists' perceptions of their education about treating underserved patients, along with their related attitudes and behavior, and b) to determine how their educational experiences were related to their attitudes and behavior concerning these patients. It was hypothesized that the quality of educational experiences related to these issues would correlate with the providers' professional attitudes and behavior. Methods: Survey data were collected from seventy-eight endodontic residents, forty-eight endodontic faculty members, and seventy-ive endodontists in private practice. Results: The residents reported themselves being better prepared to treat these patients than did the endodontists in private practice. The residents and faculty members had more positive attitudes towards patients with SHCN, developmental disabilities, and pro bono cases and were more conident when treating patients with developmental disabilities than private practitioners. However, the three groups did not differ in educational experiences and attitudes concerning patients from different ethnic/racial groups. The better the respondents' graduate education about certain patient groups had been, the more positive were their attitudes and behavior. Conclusions: Improving endodontic residents' education about treating underserved patients is likely to improve their attitudes and behavior related to providing much-needed care for these patients. These indings are a call-toaction for dental educators to ensure quality education is being provided about these issues in order to decrease access to care problems for underserved patients.Dr. Inglehart is Professor,

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How Dental Care Can Preserve and Improve Oral Health

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Dental Hygienists as Essential Members of the Health Care Team

Dental Hygienists as Essential Members of the Health Care Team

Finite element Analysis in Dentistry – Improving the quality of oral health care

Providing Care for Underserved Patients: Endodontic Residents’, Faculty Members’, and Endodontists’ Educational Experiences and Professional Attitudes and Behavior

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