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American Academy of Developmental Medicine and Dentistry. n.d.. NICHE-Dental. Hamden, CT: American Academy of Developmental Medicine and Dentistry, 1 website.

Annotation: This customizable toolkit for dental schools provides information about people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) to help schools prepare graduates to care for those with IDD. Selected topics include health disparities and history of treatment of people with IDD, social determinants of health, physical and sexual abuse and people with IDD, history of special care dentistry in education, the challenge of aging people with cognitive disability, defining the population across government and culture, financing oral health care for people with IDD, and cost savings.

Keywords: Adults with special health care needs, Children with special health care needs, Costs, Curricula, Dental schools, Dentistry, Education, Financing, Oral health, Physical abuse, Sexual abuse

California Oral Health Technical Assistance Center. 2023. School-linked dental program manual. San Francisco, CA: California Oral Health Technical Assistance Center, 5 sections.

Annotation: This manual provides information about school-linked oral health programs (programs that identify children who need oral health care and then coordinate care with a health professional in the community) for local oral health agencies in California. The manual offers background information about the California Dental Disease Prevention Program and presents a school-linked program model. The model covers selecting schools; programs' educational and outreach requirements; planning, including developing referral criteria, creating a network of dentists, using a referral-management and collection platform, and establishing performance measures; and developing protocols. Also discussed are referral management and care coordination and evaluation.

Keywords: California, Care coordination, Community coordination, Community programs, Measures, Oral health, Pediatric dentistry, Program evaluation, Referrals, School dentistry, School health, State programs

Robinson LA, ed. 2012. Oral health literacy. Journal of the California Dental Association 40(4):283–378, 1 v.

Annotation: This issue of the Journal of the California Dental Association focuses on oral health literacy. Topics include a national plan to improve health literacy in dentistry; the potential to address oral health literacy in K–12 schools; creating and maintaining health literate dental practices, clinics, and schools; and increasing health literacy for oral cancers among professionals and the public.

Keywords: Dental education, Dentistry, Health literacy, Oral health, Schools, Work force

Tomar SL. 2004. Assessment of the dental public health infrastructure in the United States. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida College of Dentistry, Division of Public Health Services and Research, 71 pp.

Annotation: The study described in this report assesses the adequacy of the dental public health infrastructure in the United States. The report covers a number of topics, including the dental workforce, administrative presence within health departments, financial resources to implement programs, and legal authority. The report provides baseline data for new initiatives to address these topics, with an emphasis on state-level infrastructure. Report sections include government, education, workforce, regulatory issues, and discussion. Recommendations and conclusions are included.

Keywords: Children, Dental schools, Health care financing, Oral health, Oral health care, Personnel, Professional education, Public health dentistry, Public health infrastructure, State surveys, Trends

Center for Health and Health Care in Schools. 2003. Caring for kids: School-based dental care—Spreading smiles through schools. Washington, DC: Center for Health and Health Care in Schools, 8 pp.

Annotation: This brief describes Caring for Kids, a multi-site national grant program established by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to develop sustainable mental and oral health care for young people by locating them in school-based health centers. The brief describes the crisis in oral health care for children, including problems resulting from high costs and limited access. It also discusses solutions, such as providing oral health care in schools, ensuring financial security for school-based oral health services, and tracking program results.

Keywords: Access to health care, Barriers, Case studies, Child health, Child health, Community programs, Costs, Financial support, Grants, Low income groups, Oral health, Oral health care, School based clinics, School dentistry, School health services, Young children

Silverton S, Sinkford J, Inglehart M, Tedesco L, Valachovic R. [1998]. Women's health in the dental school curriculum: Women's health—Report of a survey and recommendations. Rockville, MD: National Institutes of Health, Office of Research on Women's Health, 404 pp.

Annotation: This report presents results from a survey of U.S. and Canadian dental schools conducted during 1997 by the American Association of Dental Schools. The report focuses on how women's health and oral health issues are addressed in the dental school curriculum. The appendices contain an annotated bibliography of research on oral and craniofacial health and disease in women, as well as articles and other documents (testimony, statistical charts and graphs, models, and samples) related to oral health education and women's health.

Keywords: Dental education, Dental schools, Dentistry, Dentists, Oral health, Professional education, Surveys, Women, Women's health

Schlossman SL, Brown J, Sedlak M. 1986. The public school in American dentistry. Santa Monica, CA: The Rand Corporation, 82 pp.

Gies WJ. 1926. Dental education in the United States and Canada: A report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. New York, NY: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, ca. 665 pp. (Bulletin no. 19)

Annotation: This report examines the importance of dentistry as a healing science and an essential component of higher education in the health professions. Topics include a general history of dental education in North America and a discussion of the conditions in the practice of dentistry that determine its education requirements. Statistical statements and descriptive accounts of all the dental schools in the United States and Canada in 1925-26 are included, as well as a general plan for the reorganization of dental education to promote the development of dental practice as a division of health service.

Keywords: Dental education, Dental schools, Dentistry, Health professions, History, History, Oral health, Organizational change
   

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