Strengthening Children's Oral Health
November 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Low-income children and adolescents continue to bear a heavy burden of untreated pain and complications from dental disease.
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Foreword to Special Supplement of Journal of Dental Education
October 14, 2010 | Journal Article
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), prefaces this special issue of the Journal of Dental Education on RWJF's Pipeline, Profession, and Practice: Community Based Dental Education.
Preface
October 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the California Endowment contracted nationally recognized health services researchers from UCLA to perform a rigorous evaluation of the Pipeline, Profession, and Practice: Community-Based Dental Education program. This preface describes the Dental Pipeline program.
Infrastructure for a Community-Based Dental Education Program
October 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This chapter of this special supplement on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Pipeline, Profession, and Practice: Community-Based Dental Education program explores issues related to setting up a successful CBDE.
Financial Impact of Community-Based Dental Education
October 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Dental Pipeline program, presents evidence that community-based dental education (CBDE) is financially advantageous for dental schools and community clinics.
Who Will Serve?
June 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Recruiting underrepresented minority dental students of all income groups leads to more students graduating with the intention to serve minorities.
Educating Pediatricians and Family Physicians in Children's Oral Health
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
The authors recommend that educational programs be evaluated for the effect on the oral health of the children they serve and that closer medical-dental collaborations be fostered at all levels of the educational continuum.
Oral Health and Pediatricians
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
With few general dentists treating children under age four, pediatricians have an important role in performing dental screenings of young children and educating their families about preventive oral health. The authors suggest that dentists and pediatricians work together to improve the quality of preventive and oral health care available to their patients.
The Effect of Community-Level Unemployment on Preventive Oral Health Care Utilization
February 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This study considers the effects of high levels of community unemployment on the use of preventive dental services in the Seattle and the Spokane areas of Washington.
Foreword
February 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Launched in 2001, the Pipeline, Profession & Practice: Community-Based Dental Education (Dental Pipeline) program was a five-year program designed to help increase access to dental care for underserved populations. This special supplement to the Journal of Dental Education describes the evaluation in detail.