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July 24, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
The Affordable Care Act will allow more Americans to access dental health services, former Surgeon General and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars almnus David Satcher, MD, PhD, said recently at forum on unmet oral health needs, but the ...
November 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Low-income children and adolescents continue to bear a heavy burden of untreated pain and complications from dental disease.
April 10, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Former Health & Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan, MD, penned an op-ed in yesterday’s New York Times making the case for devising more effective ways to deliver dental care to poor or rural communities across the nation. The Secretary notes th ...
March 30, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Over the past two months, oral health has received a lot of press. I mentioned the Pew report above. A recent New York Times article pointed out the challenges for some kids. The NBC Nightly News picked up on the story. Water fluoridation, one of th ...
February 21, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
For instance, there are programs to educate pediatric physicians to apply fluoride varnishes, and for nurse practitioners to do oral exams and provide preventive services for young children during check-ups. HCB: What else did the Initiative include ...
October 6, 2011 | Story
Since establishing the first community health clinic in Reno, Nev., in 1995, Rodolico has worked to provide primary care, mental health and dental care to uninsured workers and to children in northern Nevada.
August 15, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
The process we followed was a strict, evidence based, well-informed one that included five committee meetings, one public workshop with 19 speakers, three commissioned papers, 15 external reviewers and many, many internal reviews, conversations, rew ...
August 8, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
We are fortunate that the Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health has a public health component in its curriculum. Its students rotate through both our homeless clinic and our children’s clinic. The exposure students get to public health in thei ...
August 3, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
The California Dental Pipeline Program, funded by The California Endowment, is a part of the Dental Pipeline Program, originally funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The 23 dental schools that participated in some aspect of this program nat ...
July 28, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
Wellness exams for children, for instance, are a very important time to explain to parents how to care for their children’s teeth. I have a two year old, and as we went through all the check-ups during the first year the pediatrician would ask me wh ...