Child indicators: Dental health

Future of Children

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 133-142

  Lewit, Eugene M ^a   Kerrebrock, Nancy ^a  

^a NONE

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Indexed keywords

CHILD; DENTAL CARE; GINGIVITIS; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 0031784334     PISSN: 10548289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1602633     Document Type: Review

References (31)

1. Sacks, M. Dental program fills a need. San Jose Mercury News. July 15, 1997, at 1E.
2. More than 600,000 school days were missed nationwide because of acute dental conditions in 1993. See U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Current estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, 1993. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 10, No. 190. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics, December 1994.
3. Miller, R.E., and Rosenstein, D.I. Children's dental health: Overview for the physician. Pediatric Clinics of North America (1982) 29,3:429-38.
4. Press release issued by the Public Information and Reports Branch, National Institute of Dental Research, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services. Results of National Oral Health Survey. Monday, March 11, 1996. Available online at http://www.nidr.nih.gov/news/i.htm.
5. Frazier, P.J., and Horowitz, A.M. Prevention: A public health perspective. In Disease prevention and oral health promotion. L.K. Cohen and H.C. Gift, eds. Copenhagen, Denmark: Munksgaard, 1995, pp. 109-52.
6. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Health Resources and Services Administration. Health status of minorities and low-income groups. Third edition. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991, Chapter VIII, p. 222.
7. In practice, DMFT and DMFS indicators are highly correlated. Because each tooth has five surfaces, the DMFS indicator takes on higher values than the DMFT measure.
8. Kaste, L.M., Selwitz, R.H., Oldakowski, R.J., et al. Coronal caries in the primary and permanent dentition of children and adolescents ages 1 to 17 years: United States, 1988-1991. Journal of Dental Research (February 1996) 75, Spec. No.: 631-41, Table 9.
9. Missing teeth are a very small fraction of the total DMFT. See note no. 8, Kaste, Selwitz, Oldakowski, et al., p. 640, Table 9. The mean %M/DMFT, or the ratio of missing teeth to the total count of decayed, missing, and filled teeth, for children ages 5 to 17 years was 1.3%.
10. See note no. 8, Kaste, Selwitz, Oldakowski, et al., pp. 631-32.
11. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Oral health of United States children: National and regional findings. NIH Publication No. 89-2247. Bethesda, MD: DHHS, 1989, pp. 3-4.
12. See note no. 8, Kaste, Selwitz, Oldakowski, et al., p. 639, Figure 2.
13. See note no. 11, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, p. 6, Table D.
14. See note no. 8, Kaste, Selwitz, Oldakowski, et al., p. 637, Table 6.
15. Brunelle, J.A., and Carlos, J.P. Recent trends in dental caries in U.S. children and the effect of water fluoridation. Journal of Dental Research (February 1990) 69, Spec. No.: 723-27, 820-23.
16. Eleven percent of the U.S. population uses private water supplies (for example, wells). Fifty-six percent of the total U.S. population receives fluoridated water from public and private sources. Of those on public water supply systems, approximately 4% receive water that is "naturally" fluoridated, rather than supplemented with fluoride. See Fluoridation Fact Sheet. FL-141, December 1993, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Oral Health. Obtained from Tom Reeves, Division of Oral Health, July 31, 1997.
17. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Oral Health. Fluoridation Census. Bethesda, MD: DHHS, September 1993.
18. Wagener, D.K., Nourjah, P., and Horowitz, A. Trends in childhood use of dental care products containing fluoride: United States, 1983-89. In Advance data from vital and health statistics. No. 219. Hyattsville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics, 1992, Table 5.
19. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Dental services and oral health: United States, 1989. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 10, No. 183. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics, December 1992, p. 59, Table 17.
20. See note no. 8, Kaste, Selwitz, Oldakowski, et al., p. 637, Table 6.
21. See note no. 8, Kaste, Selwitz, Oldakowski, et al., p. 639, Figure 2, and p. 640, Table 9.
22. See note no. 19, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Table 13.
23. Since children less than five years of age tend to see the dentist less frequently than older children, they are not included here.
24. See note no. 19, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Table 20.
25. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. Statistical abstract of the United States 1994. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1994, Table 738.
26. See note no. 19, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Table 14.
27. Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Children's dental services under Medicaid - Access and utilization. OEI-09-93-00240. San Francisco: Office of Evaluation and Inspections, April 1996, p. 1.
28. Preventive dental services were defined as instruction in self-care oral hygiene procedures, a teeth cleaning by a dental professional, and when appropriate, an application of dental sealants to prevent decay. Children requiring dental services for acute problems may be seen at higher rates. In addition, the Health Care Financing Administration data reported here may underreport the care actually given because of changes in reporting conventions, and may also be unreliable because of reporting variation among states. See note no. 27, Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, p. 6.
29. See note no. 27, Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, p. 2.
30. See note no. 27, Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, p. 7.
31. U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment. Children's dental services under the Medicaid Program - Background paper. OTA-BP-H-78. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, October 1990, p. 18.