Association Between Social Determinants of Health and Receiving Timely Dental Treatment With General Anesthesia.

To describe social determinants of health (SDOH) in a group of children with special health care needs (CSHCN) planned for dental procedures with general anesthesia (GA) at a pediatric hospital and explore associations between SDOH and completing this treatment in the recommended timeframe. SDOH were recorded for all patients planned for dental treatment with GA in 2019. Outcomes were treatment completed in the recommended timeframe or treatment not completed within two years of planning.

COVID-19 Pandemic Emergency Department Utilization for Pediatric Dental.

Purpose: Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, restrictions from mid-March to mid-May 2020 curtailed community dental practice. The study purpose was to analyze the utilization of a pediatric hospital emergency department (ED) for dental emergencies over six months of practice disruption compared to two previous years.

Methods: Records of patients presenting to the ED were analyzed for volume, demographics, dental emergency type/acuity, and treatment.

Oral health and plaque microbial profile in juvenile idiopathic arthritis.

Background: The oral microbiota has been implicated in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis through activation of mucosal immunity. This study tested for associations between oral health, microbial communities and juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA).

Methods: A cross-sectional exploratory study of subjects aged 10-18 years with oligoarticular, extended oligoarticular and polyarticular JIA was conducted.

Changes in the oral health of US children and adolescents and dental public health infrastructure since the release of the Healthy People 2010 Objectives.

We examined progress in US children's oral health and dental public health infrastructure since the Healthy People 2010 Oral Health Objectives were issued. We summarize trends in the prevalence of dental caries and dental sealants on the basis of national and state-specific data. Trends in state oral health program activities, funding, and staffing were derived from annual surveys.

A new oral health elective for medical students at the University of Washington.

Background: Oral health is an important but inadequately addressed area in medical school curricula. Primary care practitioners are in an ideal position to help prevent oral disease but lack the knowledge to do so.

Purposes: We developed an oral health elective that targeted 1st- and 2nd-year medical students as part of a previously described oral health initiative and oral health curriculum.

Evidence-based recommendations for the use of sealants.

In traditional research, the "level of significance" refers to the probability value used to reject the null hypothesis. In evidence-based research, a similar term, "the level of evidence" refers to the quality of the published report that is analyzed critically in the context of a systematic review. A systematic review, the principal research tool of evidence-based dentistry, is distinct from a classical narrative literature review in that it is focused to examine the strengths and weaknesses of the research methodology, design and data analysis of each report included in the review.

Total body weight and waist circumference associated with chronic periodontitis among adolescents in the United States.

Objective: To investigate whether measures of obesity are associated with periodontitis.

Design: A case-control study.

Setting: A nationally representative sample using data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

An oral health curriculum for medical students at the University of Washington.

Oral health disparities are a major public health problem, according to the U.S. Surgeon General.