Physician and Dentist: New Initiatives to Jointly Mitigate Early Childhood Oral Disease
Current research findings for early childhood caries (ECC) disease in the US point to an urgent need for physicians and dentists to partner and intervene on behalf of children considered most at risk, aged birth to 3 years. Here, Berg reviews the current state of affairs in the US for the ECC diseas...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Clinical pediatrics 2012-06, Vol.51 (6), p.531-537 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Current research findings for early childhood caries (ECC) disease in the US point to an urgent need for physicians and dentists to partner and intervene on behalf of children considered most at risk, aged birth to 3 years. Here, Berg reviews the current state of affairs in the US for the ECC disease epidemic, reports barriers prohibiting more urgent development of a nationwide system of allied care, and illuminates current and successful models of joint care alrready working in different states. Also presented are recent initiative goals set forth in a July 2011 inaugural symposium in Seattle titled, "Physician and Dentist: Together Managing Early Childhood Oral Health." Symposium speakers, including Institute of Medicine's (IOM) chair, Dr Fred Rivara, covered ECC-related outcomes from the IOM July 2011 report titled, "Improving Access to Oral Health Care for Vulnerable and Underserved Populations." |
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ISSN: | 0009-9228 1938-2707 |
DOI: | 10.1177/0009922811435167 |