The impact of teledentistry on travel distance and carbon emissions at a children's hospital.

Background: Health care emissions account for approximately 8.5% of total US domestic greenhouse gas emissions. Staff member and patient travel is the largest contributor to dental office-related emissions, and this number has been increasing.

Impact on Dental Utilization of the Integration of Oral Health in Pediatric Primary Care Through Quality Improvement.

Objectives: To evaluate child-level dental utilization and expenditure outcomes based on if and where children received fluoride varnish (FV) at quality improvement (QI) medical practices, at non-QI medical practices, at dental practices, or those who never received FV from any practice.

Design: Retrospective claims-based analysis cohort study.

Setting: Children with Medicaid insurance through an Ohio pediatric accountable care organization.

A literature review of leadership training and a novel conceptual model of leader-member exchange theory for new dentists.

Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to describe the current state of leadership and leader-member exchange (LMX) theory in dentistry and develop a novel conceptual model of LMX to guide future research and highlight the importance of enhancing leadership training for new dentists.

Design/methodology/approach: A literature review exploring leadership in dentistry and LMX in dentistry was completed. The findings were analyzed with framework analysis to develop a novel conceptual model of LMX specific to dentistry.

Disparities in receipt of advice to quit smoking from health care providers: 2010 National Health Interview Survey.

Introduction: Not all smokers receive tobacco cessation advice from health care providers (HCPs) and, although factors associated with receiving HCP advice to quit smoking and the effectiveness of such advice have been examined, no recent study has explored differences between types of HCPs (eg, physicians vs dentists). Our objective was to determine the prevalence of HCP-delivered advice and the characteristics of patients who receive advice to quit smoking from any HCP and, separately, from a physician or a dentist.

Methods: This study used data from the Sample Adult Core questionnaire, Sample Family Core questionnaire, and Sample Adult Cancer Control Module of the 2010 National Health Interview Survey.

Community characteristics associated with smokefree park policies in the United States.

Introduction: Outdoor smokefree (SF) policies have the potential to decrease secondhand smoke exposure and denormalize smoking. In order to inform dissemination and evaluation of this emergent tobacco control strategy, this study examined the prevalence of SF park policies in the United States and the community-level characteristics associated with enactment of such policies.

Methods: Counties with existing SF park policies in one or more jurisdictions were identified using passive surveillance data from the American Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation (ANR).