Efficacy of a Prenatal Oral Health Program Follow-up with Mothers and their Children.

Brookdale Hospital and Medical Center's Prenatal Care Assistance Program (PCAP) provides oral health education and treatment to expectant mothers from a minority, impoverished, high-risk population. A chart review examined dental records for 42 children of mothers who took PCAP training versus 49 children of mothers who did not. At age 2, the children of PCAP mothers had fewer dental caries, less severe dental caries and fewer extractions.

Sequential years of dental outreach to Jamaica. Gains toward improved caries status of children.

In the years 2007 to 2011, faculty, pediatric dental residents and dental students lead by New York University College of Dentistry and Healthcare International Reachout, Inc., traveled to the Hoolebury School, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica, where they provided treatment to 172 children. The service project focused on dental health promotion, education and prevention.

A comparison of urban school- and community-based dental clinics.

Background: The objective of the study was to quantitatively compare school- and community-based dental clinics in New York City that provide dental services to children in need. It was hypothesized that the school-based clinics would perform better in terms of several measures.

Methods: We reviewed billing and visit data derived from encounter forms and expense reports from 4 school- and 3 community-based clinics during 12 months in 2004-2005.

Children's fingernail hygiene and length as predictors of carious teeth.

Two dental residents collected data on 104 randomly selected inner city children (ages 3 to 8 years old) from the Episcopal Hospital Pediatric Dental Clinic in Philadelphia in 2002. The purpose of this study was to produce a preliminary assessment of the plausibility of simple indicators of hygiene as predictors of dental health. Fingernail length was measured as 10 mm to 10 mm beyond the end of the fingertip.