Outcomes assessment an intervention strategy to improve parental compliance to follow-up evaluations after treatment of early childhood caries using general anesthesia in a Medicaid population

Journal of Dentistry for Children

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 102-108

  Primosch, Robert E ^a   Balsewich, Caryn M ^a   Thomas, Carly W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Early childhood caries; Follow up compliance; General anesthesia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COUNSELING; DENTAL ANESTHESIA; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL HEALTH EDUCATION; DENTAL SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GINGIVA DISEASE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEALTH; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUTH HYGIENE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT REFERRAL; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALIVA; STATISTICS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TOOTH PLAQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANESTHESIA, DENTAL; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COUNSELING; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL PLAQUE; DENTAL RESTORATION, PERMANENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GINGIVAL DISEASES; HEALTH EDUCATION, DENTAL; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; ORAL HEALTH; ORAL HYGIENE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PARENTS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POVERTY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SALIVA; STATISTICS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0347781146     PISSN: 15518949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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